• Tak@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s really not the network effect.

    iMessage is deliberately used as a “buy an iPhone or else”. Imagine if Google refused to show search results, emails, or DNS traffic for Apple and we just said it’s because people are tribal or some shit.

    Apple needs to open up iMessage or adopt RCS for it to be “network effect”

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s literally just to make the iPhone seem more exclusive. Apple loves to make their products seem elite and exclusive.