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@lemmy.mlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/technology/apple-messaging-crackdown-beeper.html
Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones. Now, they say Apple has blocked the messaging service on their Macs.
multiple reports on Discord, Matrix, and Telegram, seem to suggest that, without any notice, Apple is lifting the hardware bans which had been applied to Apple users who had used their Macs and Apple IDs with Beeper
https://telegra.ph/AppleUSAntitrust-01-20
Apple Inc. is poised to face a US antitrust lawsuit as soon as March as the Justice Department prepares to take on one of the world’s most valuable companies, according to people familiar with the case. Antitrust enforcers allege that Apple has imposed software and hardware limitations on its iPhones and iPads to impede rivals from effectively competing, echoing concerns raised by Spotify Technology SA, bluetooth tracker Life360 Inc.’s Tile and messaging service Beeper. The Justice Department and Apple lawyers…
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/14/beeper-mini-users-find-macs-banned-from-imessage-network
Beeper mini users who used their hardware to register their app with Apple's iMessage network may find their Mac blocked from the service instead, in what could be retaliation against the use of the controversial messaging app.
https://telegra.ph/Apple-Set-to-Avoid-EU-Crackdown-Over-iMessage-Service-01-15
original date: Dec 6, 2023 Apple Inc.’s iMessage service looks set to win a carve out from new European Union antitrust rules to rein in Big Tech platforms after watchdogs tentatively concluded that it isn’t popular enough with business users to warrant being hit by the regulation. European Commission officials are leaning toward the reprieve for Apple as part of a five-month market investigation which concludes in February, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. In…
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-disputes-eu-rules-labelling-its-5-app-stores-one-service-2024-01-08/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/technology/antitrust-apple-lawsuit-us.html
Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used its other products and services to defend against threats to its core business.
https://www.howtogeek.com/710509/apples-imessage-is-secure...-unless-you-have-icloud-enabled/