Thankfully this is the kind of thing where apples tolerance and forebearance will cease and the lawyers will come out. There really is clear cause for CFAA charges already, but the optics of doing this are not good against a small indie developer. This is not the case with google or Samsung getting onboard.
Playtime is over, beeper was always gonna get squashed and apple played it incredibly well without turning it into more of a legal fight than they needed to.
There are zero (0) services that are going to tolerate a third-party commercial service spoofing device credentials to get into a service that is very obviously not offered in the form they are offering. Discord will ban you for using Revanced too, even more aggressively than apple.
Just imagine being some YC startup and some other service thinks they can use your email servers for spam and sues when you close an accidentally open relay lmao. It’s a facially absurd case when you remove it from the “apple bad” fervor surrounding every single apple article. Nobody is going to tolerate commercial third party operators using their infra for revenue operations.
“Well they should have to too and —“ let me stop you there - no. Do you want open spam relays? That’s how you get open spam relays. Even with beeper it’s always been about the wave of spam that is going to be unleashed for the other legitimate users of the service. Spam as a service on other people’s infra is bad actually.
It is, again, exactly that simple. It would be an absurd case if it were anyone besides apple but the unthinking hatred of android users is just that intense. All you can see is the carrot, and you really don’t care about the consequences or the precedent, this is an absurdly bad idea/argument. But that’s how android users react on every apple topic. It gets old. Open spam relays are not a good thing even if it means you stick it to apple.
Imagine saying google has to run an open smtp relay just because they’re a gatekeeper. If somehow you managed to spoof googles server into thinking you were a google relay and started selling access to this as a commercial product they’d ban your ass too, in a literal heartbeat, but because of the constant unthinking bleating of the android fanboys it’s somehow an issue that needs to be discussed. No, you can’t do that and it it wouldn’t be a good thing if you could. Why is that even a question? Literally I am asking, why is that a legitimate thing anyone would ever argue other than blinding levels of fanboydom?
It’s so noxious, it’s every damn apple thread. The value of green bubbles as a social filter has become very apparent to me after a number of these apple threads. I didn’t think that way before but I do now, there is another reason y’all ain’t getting invited to those chats.
(Oops, naughty naughty, only green bubbles get to make sly little digs about the other sort.)
This notion that any third party = spam is ridiculous on its face, not to mention that new protocols can - and in this case, Apple already does - integrate anti-spam measures like PoW.
But also, it's rather ironic that you brought up email, given that this is a widely successful open protocol where random third parties connect to the server (thereby consuming resources by their email provider, the horror!) to deliver an email to the user. I'm really glad that fundamental protocols like these were developed before this kind of thinking became widespread; at least now we get to enjoy having somewhat open Internet for a little while longer.
Playtime is over, beeper was always gonna get squashed and apple played it incredibly well without turning it into more of a legal fight than they needed to.
There are zero (0) services that are going to tolerate a third-party commercial service spoofing device credentials to get into a service that is very obviously not offered in the form they are offering. Discord will ban you for using Revanced too, even more aggressively than apple.
Just imagine being some YC startup and some other service thinks they can use your email servers for spam and sues when you close an accidentally open relay lmao. It’s a facially absurd case when you remove it from the “apple bad” fervor surrounding every single apple article. Nobody is going to tolerate commercial third party operators using their infra for revenue operations.
“Well they should have to too and —“ let me stop you there - no. Do you want open spam relays? That’s how you get open spam relays. Even with beeper it’s always been about the wave of spam that is going to be unleashed for the other legitimate users of the service. Spam as a service on other people’s infra is bad actually.
It is, again, exactly that simple. It would be an absurd case if it were anyone besides apple but the unthinking hatred of android users is just that intense. All you can see is the carrot, and you really don’t care about the consequences or the precedent, this is an absurdly bad idea/argument. But that’s how android users react on every apple topic. It gets old. Open spam relays are not a good thing even if it means you stick it to apple.
Imagine saying google has to run an open smtp relay just because they’re a gatekeeper. If somehow you managed to spoof googles server into thinking you were a google relay and started selling access to this as a commercial product they’d ban your ass too, in a literal heartbeat, but because of the constant unthinking bleating of the android fanboys it’s somehow an issue that needs to be discussed. No, you can’t do that and it it wouldn’t be a good thing if you could. Why is that even a question? Literally I am asking, why is that a legitimate thing anyone would ever argue other than blinding levels of fanboydom?
It’s so noxious, it’s every damn apple thread. The value of green bubbles as a social filter has become very apparent to me after a number of these apple threads. I didn’t think that way before but I do now, there is another reason y’all ain’t getting invited to those chats.
(Oops, naughty naughty, only green bubbles get to make sly little digs about the other sort.)