The IT Nerd

The Apple versus Beeper Mini fight has attracted the attention of Capitol Hill. But first, some background to get you up to speed:

• First we got Beeper Mini which promised Android users the iMessage experience.
• Apple shut them down very quickly, and admitted to it. But not before the company said that they were trying to bring the service back online. 
• The service came back online yesterday and so far, it’s still live.

And this back and forth between Apple and Beeper Mini has now gotten the attention of US Senator Elizabeth Warren who is known for taking stands on anti-trust issues:

iMessage is a closed platform because Apple deems it to be so. That much is true. But Beeper Mini has literally broken into that platform. They didn’t ask Apple if they could do this. Likely because Apple would have said no. So she can’t be surprised that Apple took a dim view of what Beeper Mini did and are trying to take them out as a result. For Apple, this is a security issue first and foremost. Any suggestion that this is a competition or antitrust issue is a #fail.

The fact is Warren is on the wrong side of this issue. If I were her, I’d reconsider her position.

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