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US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

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The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

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[-] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All I want is RCS on iPhone. I know Apple already said they're working on it, but I hope legal pressure like this will force them to make the RCS/iMessage integration actually work well (instead of half-assing it which I assume is what they want to do, cuz they want their users to feel frustrated when texting their Android friends)

[-] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Can't we just move past carrier managed messaging? I'd rather my telecom to just be dumb pipes and move everyone to Signal and similar.

[-] techwithjake@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

The iMessage lock-in is too real for some of us. I know some iPhone users who won't even install FB Messenger (I know, I don't use it either. Fuck the Zuck) because it's not Apple/iMessage. I finally got my family on Signal and "OMG! We can send videos and pictures now!" Yeah, been saying it for years lol.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All I want is RCS on iPhone

Me too, but isn’t this a chicken and egg situation?

why should Apple add it if carriers don’t support and you haven’t go through Google if you want secure messaging?
why should carriers support it if so many phones don’t, and why are they ceding security to Google?
is not Google also a monopolist?
is RCS even a useful standard if there’s not a consensus to make it ubiquitous?

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