The point the suit misses is that one can simply buy an Android phone if they like. Millions of people literally do every year.
Choice already exists.
Choice already exists.
COMPLAINT In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Appl e’s then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. The ad began with a woman who was using her iPhone to buy and read books on the Kindle app. She then switches to an Androi d smartphone and continues to read her books using the same Kindle app. The executive wrote to Jobs: one “ message that can’t be missed is that it is easy to switch from iPhone to Android. Not fun to watch. ” Jobs was clear in his response: Apple would “force” deve lopers to use its payment system to lock in both developers and users on its platform. Over many years, Apple has repeat edly responded to competitive threats like this one by making it harder or more expensive for its users and developers to leave than by making it more attr active for them to stay.
Unsurprisingly, a lot social planning and banter happens in those group messages.
The rest of the world is on cross platform apps and couldn't care less what their friends type from.
Also, most of the US doesn't use text messages either, they use platform dependent iMessage. Hence the lock in.
Not really. They have ties to specific platforms, just that the platform is not tied to hardware. So it's either installing the app, or losing the connections, same as with the iPhone.
It somehow was a lot easier than migrating my data to an Android phone, for example.
So getting back to the original point, OP bemoans that in order to communicate with some people, one has to have an iPhone. With other apps, you just need to have the specific app. Maybe not as bad, we could say, but the phenomenon is the same: in order to contact some people, you have to install their specific app. No other way in.
Can't even blame Facebook, I've had whatsapp before they bought it. I even paid the 0.99 they were charging iOS users before 2016 *.
* year pulled out of Gemini so may be inaccurate.