US senators have urged the DOJ to probe Apple’s alleged anti-competitive conduct against Beeper.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I think the problem is that it’s unnecessarily hardware locked. They shouldn’t have to “open it up” insofar as anyone can access it from whatever app like beeper is doing. But it’s only fair that they support other operating systems. They can still control it or even charge a fee to access it from other OSes.

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      11 months ago

      I wish this kind of thing was more spotlighted when Palm and Windows Phone developers were trying to use Google API’s to make apps for their OS’s and got shut down at every turn, eventually killing off the Palm and WP because of device lock-in on apps.

      I still miss what Palm could have been before Google bent them over a barrel with their massively anti-competitive bs.