DOJ antitrust lawyers question Beeper over Apple's iMessage hack

avon b7 said:

rob53 said:
The FTC and DOJ need to open their eyes and understand that Beeper is trying to hack Apple software. This has nothing to do with competition and anyone at the DOJ or FTC with any brain should see it for what it is and understand what it isn't. Messages is Apple's product and just like Microsoft and Google software, along with the million other apps, there's no justifiable requirement that they have to work with each other. 

I agree with your first observation. I don't think reverse engineering the Messages protocol is the best way to go. 

However, I definitely think industry should work towards interoperability which has been a decades old problem and source of problems. 

If a company is forced to open up their innovations, they will stop doing so.  Allowing third parties to hack your platform and then stopping the hack is not anticompetitive; it is protecting their platform from bad actors and protecting me who do not want to have to think about security every time I pickup my phone.  I use to have that time.  Now I want to trust the company I buy my phone from.

As for interoperability, it would be nice but that is not anticompetitive either.  It is Apple's platform and they are paying for servers to run that platform.  Those hacking into it are taking from those of us who do like the Apple Ecosystem and want them to innovate and not be stifled because someone else's feeling are hurt seeing green bubbles.