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amar99 said:

As exposed in some of the emails from Epic Games vs. Apple, Apple chose early on to use iMessage / Messages as a lock-in for the iPhone platform. They have no incentive to give this one up and make it easier for users to securely message other platforms, until coerced by law to do so.

Edit: typo

Are you actually trying to tell Apple users that we have no other means of texting or sending media other than Messages?
 
From Ars Technica no less...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs-apple-for-mercy-in-messaging-war/

The Catalina security update includes a crap-ton of patches.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213255

slurpy said:

Still cannot believe Apple did this. Pretty massive endeavour. And of course not a single positive word uttered by the right to repair hypocrites and trolls. Just more criticism and complaining.  

When you understand that the right-to-repair advocates won’t be satisfied with anything less than a complete redesign of the iPhone you know why they are still upset. They literally want snap-apart enclosures with gaskets instead of adhesives, standard Phillips screws, snap-in batteries, third party parts, no special tools required. Go to some of the right-to-repair websites and you’ll see what they want. 

On an anecdotal note I wanted to replace the light bulb in my microwave oven some years ago. When taking apart the enclosure I discovered one of the screws was a non-standard pentium head. It became clear the manufacturer didn’t want the user anywhere near the magnetron tube. There were warnings all over that there were no user serviceable parts inside. 

Welp, I guess we should start the death spiral clock, eh? Can’t wait to be told this is actually bad news by the usual crowd here, and why can’t Apple pay its retail workers $100K per week. You know, the usual backhanded slap-in-the-face kind of bullshit. /s

DAalseth said:

Madbum said:

Why? I would just fire the trouble makers or cut their hours or shift to commission pay as I am sure none of the unionizers are any good

That is a federal crime and if you did it as flagrantly as you suggest at the very least you would soon have no business. Possibly you'd be doing time. That is very much against federal, and many state, laws.
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This is seriously uncool TC. This will come back and bite Apple in the @$$ later on by damaging the brand.

I have an idea, instead of spending millions to thwart unionization efforts, why not put that money into improving salary and working conditions? Unions are a response, not a goal, happy workers don't unionize.

Yeah, people are always and forever predicting Apple’s downfall in terms of public perception and “damaging the brand” just like they predicted Apple’s financial downfall if Apple didn’t build the devices with the features they demanded. All the claims of slave labor, the #Appletoo ‘movement’, screaming about anti-trust and anti-competitive behavior, and now union busting, and no dent in the brand yet except in the minds of tech blog commenters. And if those commenters are sincere in their beliefs that Apple is a  douchebag of a company then why, for God’s sake, are they still on the platform? As the saying goes, money talks and bullshit walks, so vote with your pocketbook to get the attention of this worthless, evil, greedy, employee hating, capitalist pig of a corporation.

Apple has every right to discourage the formation of a union through legals means. Employees also have every right to establish a union through legal means. In time we’ll see if anything actually happens.