It’s very right. All messaging platforms should be open or interoperable.
Imagine if from Hotmail you could only email others on Hotmail. Or the same with Gmail. Or not being able to SMS anyone on at&t from any other telco. There’s no good reason to limit it like that.
Also consider that they were charging for the service. The only part of the deal I wasn’t keen on. 1 because again, messaging should be open and interoperable. 2 they were basically charging a recurring fee for access to Apple’s service, not specifically theirs in this instance. Which seems bad on Beeper, until you realize that Apple is basically refusing to make money from their service. And they’re not doing it out of principle, ideology, or good will. They’re doing it because they don’t want to compete. Not with regards to iMessage, or anything else.
Apple already publicly announced they’re working on both implementing RCS to (Apple) Messages and working to get E2EE into the RCS Universal Profile, so this whole “anti-competitive, anti-interoperability” argument falls flat.
At the end of the day, this app was an attempt to commercialize a high-profile exploit which threatened the security of iMessage. Politicians like Senator Warren making these criticisms of “monopolistic behavior” are, as usual, being tech-illiterate buffoons.
It’s very right. All messaging platforms should be open or interoperable.
Imagine if from Hotmail you could only email others on Hotmail. Or the same with Gmail. Or not being able to SMS anyone on at&t from any other telco. There’s no good reason to limit it like that.
Also consider that they were charging for the service. The only part of the deal I wasn’t keen on. 1 because again, messaging should be open and interoperable. 2 they were basically charging a recurring fee for access to Apple’s service, not specifically theirs in this instance. Which seems bad on Beeper, until you realize that Apple is basically refusing to make money from their service. And they’re not doing it out of principle, ideology, or good will. They’re doing it because they don’t want to compete. Not with regards to iMessage, or anything else.
Apple already publicly announced they’re working on both implementing RCS to (Apple) Messages and working to get E2EE into the RCS Universal Profile, so this whole “anti-competitive, anti-interoperability” argument falls flat.
At the end of the day, this app was an attempt to commercialize a high-profile exploit which threatened the security of iMessage. Politicians like Senator Warren making these criticisms of “monopolistic behavior” are, as usual, being tech-illiterate buffoons.
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Maybe we wouldn’t have the spam ridden hellscape that is modern email if it worked more like current messaging platforms