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  • European Commission grills Apple and Google on app store risks and ad practices

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    CheeseFreeze said:
    22july2013 said:
    "The government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan
    The same government you gladly see help you when you need it. You can’t have it both ways.
    The government doesn’t gladly help anyone. In fact, even the government trying to help ends up in disaster. The government needs to stick to the military, law-enforcement, and the judicial system, perhaps with some basic regulation thrown in. They can’t do anything else. That’s been proven for hundreds of years.  
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Beeper Mini is down for 5% of users, but there's a fix

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    For anyone claiming that “they’re doing just fine”, just wait. Apple is trying to let them down easily. They don’t really consider them a threat. At least not right now. But if they are unable to block their clear theft of intellectual property, they will do it legally.  I don’t care if they’re using apples servers or not, they are obviously copying the user interface. That’s the entire point of the app. Beeper mini is going to go down in flames.  
    ronnwatto_cobra

  • European Commission grills Apple and Google on app store risks and ad practices

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    Show me the company and I’ll show you the crime. That appears to be the European Commission’s motto. I would say these people are so grossly  incompetent and predictable, excepted government that is so grossly incompetent and predictable. First, there is enormous pressure to allow third-party app stores. Then they want to investigate the existing App Store for vulnerabilities that they don’t even understand.  
    watto_cobra

  • Android iMessage app Beeper mini isn't working, and Apple probably killed it

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    Here I was thinking that it would result in legal action.  Instead, they just flipped the switch and said “how about DEM apples?”  🤣🤣🤣



    byronl9secondkox2watto_cobra

  • Goodbye, green bubbles: How to send blue iMessages from Android with Beeper Mini

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    jimh2 said:
    This will be shut down as the software is trespassing on Apple servers. No different than using (stealing) electricity from the neighbor without permission. Masquerading as blue is fraudulent on some level as blue tells users who they are messaging.

    You cannot use someone else’s assets without their permission and there are no exceptions to this. 

    I haven’t considered that. I was more focused on the fact that I think it’s going to get shut down because they are mimicking Apple’s iMessage service, which is a proprietary technology.  The interface, the blue bubble, the entire way it works, it’s all legally protected.  They openly admit that it’s reverse engineered. Did Apple even have this kind of evidence against Samsung? Unless this makes Apple a ton of cash, I think they have no choice but to file a nuclear-level lawsuit.  A company just openly copied their product so it would work on a competing platform.  That isn’t going to fly.
    coolfactor