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I pay for the walled garden. You are free to patron other businesses with different models if you prefer.

>I pay for the walled garden.

Good for you. If non-Apple people didn't need to communicate with Apple people, there is no issue. But that's not how things work obviously.

Apple is INTENTIONALLY making it difficult for non-Apple people to work with Apple people. My mom is 100% apple, and she literally has problems receiving texts from non-apple phones. She wants me to buy apple products just to make it easier to talk with her!

If you don't see what they are doing you are just plugging your ears and going "lalalala"

Apple isn’t responsible for SMS infrastructure, and without legislation mandating interoperability, it is what it is. Consider Signal for your cross platform needs. Apple isn’t actively making SMS suck, they’re simply not opening their superior messaging platform to other clients (just as Slack and Discord don’t allow non official clients).

>Apple isn’t responsible for SMS infrastructure, and without legislation mandating interoperability, it is what it is.

What are you talking about? The problem isn't with the SMS infrastructure. It works just fine.

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