nathanimal

I fail to understand why Spotify thinks it's so difficult for a prospective subscriber to go to their website and sign up for an account there. Apple is under no legal obligation to facilitate the business of a competitor to one of their products. While I agree that they shouldn't unfairly obstruct their competition, I fail to see how Apple is doing this. They are not preventing users from signing up for an account on their website. 

There seems to be a notion here, held by some, that professional users don't know how to do product research. Nobody is "out of luck," there are PLENTY of options available to Mac users requiring an external display. I'm loving my LG Thunderbolt 34" display. The 21:9 aspect ratio is incredibly useful for the media apps I use. Now there are dozens of 4K displays available for almost half the price of the Thunderbolt Display. 

I agree with the experts. This had to be deliberate. 

Without having read all the comments, I agree with those who pine for an apolitical Apple, such as was the case prior to Tim Cook. All this crap distracts from their once-obsessive focus on the products they design, and it is starting to show. 

I'm gonna call "no go" on this rumor. One of my computers is running OS X on non-Apple hardware, and iMessage is the biggest PITA to get working, due to multiple layers of authentication it uses to maintain it's vaunted security. It really is "no mean feat" to completely change it's backend workings to accommodate Android. From my experience and understanding of how the service works, porting it to Android would compromise the security of the service - perhaps it's biggest selling point - because of the inherent fragmentation of that ecosystem. Plus, there are plenty of services out there already that exceed iMessage in functionality, that are already cross-platform. I don't see that Apple stands to gain anything from this rumored expansion of iMessage.