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by Mountain_Skies
905 days ago
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Teenagers in the US are close to 90% Apple. While that doesn't mean they all must use iMessage but it comes bundled with their phone and is what the vast majority of fellow teens have access to so it naturally becomes what they use. https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/iphone-teen-survey-2023... Intentional or not, Apple gets to ride off of the natural inclination of teens to conform to their peer group. |
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It's why Google pay Apple tens of billions of dollars per year to be the default search engine.
That's why there needs to be regulations that default apps must be optional and must be permitted to switch to any apps for open standards that are available.
Apple should not get to pick which services I want to use, that's my choice on a device that I own. If I want to use Google Messages as the default SMS/RCS client, that should be permitted and without any pushback from the platform vendors.