[benologist]

It is absolutely a deliberate decision by Apple to pressure people to use iPhones and to pressure people not to convert to using Android. Hopefully this will be one of the items on Congress' agenda as they disempower 'big tech'.

> “When I asked a senior Apple executive why iMessage wasn’t being expanded to other platforms, he gave two answers,” reports Mossberg. “First, he said, Apple considers its own user base of 1 billion active devices to provide a large enough data set for any possible AI learning the company is working on. And, second, having a superior messaging platform that only worked on Apple devices would help sales of those devices — the company’s classic (and successful) rationale for years.”

https://www.cultofmac.com/433784/apple-reveals-why-imessage-...

[darthrupert]

Platform feuds are totally irrelevant compared to the overall forcing children to own a smartphone. In fact, Android and Google has probably made the situation much worse by driving the prices down.