• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    Compaq “beat” IBM.

    I don’t know anything about Compaq. Was their business built on reverse engineering IBMs system and impersonating IBM hardware to gain unauthorized access to their servers and services?

    Apple can only change the iMessage protocol itself very slowly

    They changed it in <3 days.

    iMessage is a giant cash cow for them. They’ve stated as much. They will dedicate a massive amount of resources to ensure that is not lost.

    Beeper users will eventually become tired after the 3rd or 4th time they can’t send/receive messages to Apple users at all anymore because they can’t deregister their phone number from iMessage and Beeper Mini is broken.