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Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world
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US senators have urged the DOJ to probe Apple's alleged anti-competitive conduct against Beeper.

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[–] jon@lemmy.tf 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why would they need to look into Apple's conduct here? Investigate Beeper for CFAA violations since they cracked into Apple's internal APIs and ignored large chunks of their ToS in the process.

Of course Apple is going to shut down unauthorized access to their messaging system. They'd lose all customer trust instantly if they didn't.

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

ToS have almost universally been shown to be unenforceable in court. I'm also not sure what the hell you mean by customers would lose trust. It's not as if they had access to information they shouldn't, all they did was reverse engineer the protocol. They still had to have an account and a login and they still only had access to the data that account should have. There's nothing to lose trust over the only thing beeper was doing was emulating being an iMessage client

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reverse engineering for interoperability is legal, is it not? This is interoperability.