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John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v Apple (daringfireball.net)

submitted 8 months ago by HotGarbage@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?

Without having read the actual lawsuit yet

Says it all

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is Apple obligated to ship an iMessage client for other platforms? For free?

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Open secure messaging protocols with freely available and unencumbered specifications and even implementations are good, actually.

I wish XMPP or Matrix or whatthefuckever existed so that we didn't have to rely on fifteen fucking proprietary IM systems to communicate with an adequate portion of our friends.

Can we make it an outright criminal offense to ship a new messaging application without an accompanying RFC detailing the format? With aggravating circumstances if you outright forbid third party clients that end up being created anyway.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

it's always great when these guys respond to well-established antitrust law by incorrecting the world on the concept of "competition" from first principles