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Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a call for breaking up Apple's “suppressed monopoly” in the smartphone market. despite the fact that the iPhone peaks in only half of the US population.
After siding with Beeper, which hacked iMessage security and used Apple servers without paying for it, Senator Warren has now criticized the existence of the iPhone. While claiming that Apple is using “dirty tricks” by not providing iPhone features to people who don't have an iPhone, Senator Warren also openly accuses the company of ruining relationships.
“It's true that non-iPhone users are being excluded from group text messages everywhere, from sports team chats to birthday chats to vacation plans chats,” she says. “And who is to blame here? Apple.”
It's time to break Apple's monopoly on smartphones.
Also, let's stop excluding people with green text from group chats. This is simply wrong. pic.twitter.com/pr61Idf9yK
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 18, 2024
Senator Warren has a background in business law and her father was a salesman. So her outrage that “Apple even takes a discount every time you use Tap to Pay” seems disingenuous.
Tap to Pay is a system developed by Apple that allows iPhone users to make contactless payments. This started in Apple Stores but has now expanded to other vendors such as PayPal.
She doesn't seem particularly bothered by PayPal and credit cards taking a cut of every sale.
Then the senator's claim that Apple is ruining relationships because not everyone can use iMessage overstates the importance of the iPhone's default messaging service. It also ignores the fact that the fault lies with the use of old text messaging technology and that Apple has committed to supporting RCS to improve messaging for Android users.
“It's time to break Apple's monopoly,” she concludes, despite the fact that Apple doesn't really have one, except for the fact that iPhone owners have Apple devices.
Inflammatory rhetoric and no policies
Same as before The announcement does not yet result in any concrete plans. This is just empty talk from a politician who doesn't understand technology enough to regulate it effectively, but still thinks he knows.
Senator says he supports Justice Department lawsuit against Apple — “This is right”. Separately, she also criticized big tech companies and asked the Biden administration to work to keep Americans' data out of the hands of foreign adversaries.
However, despite all the rhetoric in her social media posts, there is neither a specific call to action nor detailed proposals for reasonable solutions. In fact, there is nothing significant there at all.
Even with breaking up Apple's defunct monopoly, it's unclear how Senator Warren thinks Apple and its iPhone can be broken up and still be good for the consumer. In all likelihood, she thinks it will attract attention and may help her future election campaign. This statement has the essence and quality of pieces of paper fluttering in the wind.
Apple hasn't commented on her post, and it shouldn't.
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