Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution - eviltoast

Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I have such a love/hate relationship with my senator.

    • She basically brought the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into existence, which helps TONS of people not get fucked over by banks and stuff
    • Simultaneously, she tends to support corporatist stuff a frustrating amount of the time, and (similar to how Feinstein was, but not quite as bad) doesn’t really know what she’s talking about when it comes to tech and the nuances involved

    Edit: to be clear, this isn’t me doing a “hail corporate” and saying Apple is categorically in the right here - simply that there are a LOT more technical complexities going on here than the (reductive) statement Warren made seems to indicate

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      11 months ago

      Get the fuck out of here with your nuance. You have no business being on the internet.

      /s (in case it isn’t obvious)