- Beeper says that it received and verified reports of 30 users of Beeper Cloud or Mini that had their Macs banned from using iMessage by Apple.
- Apple Support says the Macs were banned from accessing iMessage due to “spam.”
- Beeper has disabled new iMessage connections to Beeper Cloud, and it’s unclear when or if functionality might return.
It has been so insanely self destructive for Beeper to continue trying to implement this.
It reminds me of Palm and WebOS trying to piggyback off iTunes in the 2010s. It doesn’t help your users, it doesn’t help your company, it doesn’t help your platform and introduces so much liability to everyone. I sometimes wonder if Jon Rubinstein trying to push WebOS/iTunes integration was just a last ditch effort to sink the project.
Wild to me that you don’t see it as self-destructive of Apple to pull this BS as they stare down anti-trust action from multiple major world governments.
Platform exclusive software isn’t my favorite thing in the world but it seems unavoidable. Nobody is out here calling for legal action against Nintendo for not selling a pc copy of Mario. It’s the same thing. Why does iMessage exclusivity make people so angry?
One is a video game and the other is a company creating barriers to communication in an attempt to sell more devices. Not really equivalent imo
Signal recently said they predict $50m cost per year. Do you think Apple runs their servers for free? I’d be mad if someone highjacked my servers without my permission.
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I’d pay for the service if I could
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Apple implementing RCS involves using their own servers too, which they’ve claimed they’d add anyway.
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Why do people feel the need to defend a 400B corporations pockets? Over a small companies desire to unify messaging for everyone. Across multiple apps even. What’s app, RCS, imessage, signal, fb messenger, twitter PMs, discord and more being added. Bro there’s even indeed PMs there.
I feel like you are claiming the victim
This is malignant monopolism by Apple, in my opinion.
