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Users report having their Apple hardware banned, Beeper responds by locking the discussion 😳
(lemmy.ml)
Update: it may be limited to those using a hackintosh in conjunction with beeperserv (the jailbreak tweak). Still kind of lousy of them to lock the reddit topic though…
Several users recently reported that after using pypush—the tool that Beeper paid $25,000 for in order to build Beeper Mini—Apple banned their genuine Apple hardware devices from accessing iMessage.
When their comments were shared to the r/Beeper subreddit, one of the mods whom Beeper appointed decided to lock the comments, citing the “need to investigate this further” and directing concerned users to “reach out to support through the appropriate channels.”
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Back then, Apple reverse engineered Microsoft office files, and it was fine if Apple did that?
Probably not entirely the same, but the core issue is the similar IMO: non-interoperability.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay
This isn't the same at all, it's even more benign. It's like if Apple bought a Microsoft Office license for every Mac they sold and only used Microsoft's official source code to read Office files and then Microsoft started banning those copies of Office.
But Apple was renting out the use of that Office software to paying customers?