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jimsimmons on Dec 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beeper Mini is back

Crazy that Apple gets to ship a proprietary messaging app as the default

hu3 on Dec 11, 2023 | [–]

Apple is lucky that iMessage usage in EU is irrelevant.

Otherwise this kind of thing would have been regulated already.

See what's happening to Safari on iOS. Took a long time if you ask me.

everfree on Dec 11, 2023 | | [–]

Google does it too, with their proprietary messaging app that extends the RCS protocol.

robertoandred on Dec 11, 2023 | [–]

What's proprietary about SMS?

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