Comment by Scubabear68
2 years ago
The point the suit misses is that one can simply buy an Android phone if they like. Millions of people literally do every year.
Choice already exists.
2 years ago
The point the suit misses is that one can simply buy an Android phone if they like. Millions of people literally do every year.
Choice already exists.
Here's the first paragraph of the actual lawsuit. So no, I feel like they probably didn't miss the point that Android exists:
COMPLAINT In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Appl e’s then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. The ad began with a woman who was using her iPhone to buy and read books on the Kindle app. She then switches to an Androi d smartphone and continues to read her books using the same Kindle app. The executive wrote to Jobs: one “ message that can’t be missed is that it is easy to switch from iPhone to Android. Not fun to watch. ” Jobs was clear in his response: Apple would “force” deve lopers to use its payment system to lock in both developers and users on its platform. Over many years, Apple has repeat edly responded to competitive threats like this one by making it harder or more expensive for its users and developers to leave than by making it more attr active for them to stay.
If you want to have a functional social circle in the US, choice doesn't really exist.
Social pressure to use a particular phone and messaging app does not a monopoly make.
I'm sure you've seen this before, but only the US uses text messages any more.
The rest of the world is on cross platform apps and couldn't care less what their friends type from.
This lawsuit pertains to the US only...
Also, most of the US doesn't use text messages either, they use platform dependent iMessage. Hence the lock in.
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>couldn't care less what their friends type from.
Not really. They have ties to specific platforms, just that the platform is not tied to hardware. So it's either installing the app, or losing the connections, same as with the iPhone.
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If your friends won't talk to you because you have an Android phone, you don't actually have any friends.
Friends will still talk to you. But they won't include you in group messages because apple purposely sabotages group messages with anyone outside the garden.
Unsurprisingly, a lot social planning and banter happens in those group messages.