> iMessage's lack of popularity everywhere else in the world is proof that competition is able to flourish.
I truly do not understand the reasoning behind this. A product doesn’t need to be popular world-wide for behavior to be anti-competitive. The reality is that the US market is heavily impacted, and the fact that this isn’t true in other geos has nothing to do with the impact here.
> Apple is under no obligation to make an Android app, and it's silly to pretend not making an app for another platform is somehow anti-competetive.
I think that framing this only as an obligation for Apple to make an android app is unnecessarily narrow.
There are many ways this could be solved:
- By not artificially degrading the non-iMessage experience
- By not want until 2024 to implement support for RCS
- By opening up APIs with appropriate restrictions to be consumed by other apps - the thing they do for most other native phone capabilities
Building a first party app is just one of a large number of possibilities that are less broken than the status quo.
RCS will help this. They’re embarrassingly and/or intentionally late to the party.
I truly do not understand the reasoning behind this. A product doesn’t need to be popular world-wide for behavior to be anti-competitive. The reality is that the US market is heavily impacted, and the fact that this isn’t true in other geos has nothing to do with the impact here.
> Apple is under no obligation to make an Android app, and it's silly to pretend not making an app for another platform is somehow anti-competetive.
I think that framing this only as an obligation for Apple to make an android app is unnecessarily narrow.
There are many ways this could be solved:
- By not artificially degrading the non-iMessage experience
- By not want until 2024 to implement support for RCS
- By opening up APIs with appropriate restrictions to be consumed by other apps - the thing they do for most other native phone capabilities
Building a first party app is just one of a large number of possibilities that are less broken than the status quo.
RCS will help this. They’re embarrassingly and/or intentionally late to the party.