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Apple is ethically obligated to give free services to people who don’t buy their products?

Ethical? Say you launch a product that uses cloud services (ie servers and storage). If I reverse engineer your protocol and launch my own (paid) product on top of your service, is it unethical for you to shut me down? Isn’t it also unethical for me to create a product on top of your infrastructure without getting permission or providing some kind of payment?

IMHO, Beeper is the one with an ethics problem.

It also shows that the privacy campaign is just a business tactic.

That shouldn’t come as a surprise of course, but the Apple reality distortion field is real so I think it’s worth noting.