XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-12-18 18:56, Andrew wrote:   
   > badgolferman wrote on Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:41:16 -0000 (UTC) :   
   >   
   >>> The FBI doesn't take sides so they don't mention Apple is the problem.   
   >>> But anyone with half a brain is well aware that Apple is the problem.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> In my opinion Apple would not lose customers if they made RCS   
   >> interoperability possible with Android. People buy Apple products not for   
   >> their messaging app, but for many other features.   
   >   
   > Hi badgolferman,   
   >   
   > I can speak with you normally, where I don't have to dumb down the message.   
   >   
   > Knowing that Apple is one of the most brilliant marketing organizations in   
   > the world, and assuming Apple legal must also be the best in the world, and   
   > knowing that Apple only tells the truth in court, we can perhaps ascertain   
   > Apple's true intentions by their own executives' emails deposed in the Epic   
   > case.   
   >   
   > We've discussed those very emails on this very newsgroup in gory detail, so   
   > there's no need to repeat them other than to summarize that Apple considers   
   > interoperability outside the walled garden to be a dire threat to profits.   
   >   
   > And it is.   
   >   
   > Since we discussed this many times, you're likely well aware those Apple   
   > executives said in those published internal emails that the messaging app   
   > allowed Apple to lock people into the walled garden ecosystem -   
   > particularly - Apple execs stated - young impressionable kids whose parents   
   > buy their iPhones for them and whose parents want to give the kids what   
   > their peers ask them to have.   
   >   
   > This is, almost certainly, why some of those impressionable kids make such   
   > a big deal out of green/blue bubbles, where, ironically, these   
   > non-technical kids are surprisingly clueless that a green bubble message   
   > with Android RCS users means that the messaging is NOT encrypted.   
   >   
   > If Google and Apple could   
   >> agree on an encryption protocol - even temporarily - it would show   
   >> goodwill   
   >> to all their customers.   
   >   
   > It's not Google holding it up. It's Apple. (See above reason why.)   
   > Remember, the executives publicly said interoperability petrified them.   
   I love how with each repetition (of a claim you won't actually support),   
   it gets more dramatic.   
      
   "Petrified them"?   
      
   Please.   
      
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