Why the United States is Suing Apple

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The fact that right to repair isnt mentioned is crazy. Apple knowingly designs products that are not repairable and incentivizes their customer base to purchase the new iPhone every year. I havent read the the DOJ suit, but if that isnt mentioned on there, they completely missed the biggest argument against Apple and their anti-consumer behavior.

I think you have missed the point on the messaging section at least, RCS would allow all messages to be encrypted. Apple being forced to allow interoperability with other key standards (RCS) does not stop them from being able to offer higher integration with their own system it just stops them from deliberately reducing the quality for everyone else.

An unusually bad poly matter video... The iMessages section completely misses the point. Green bubbles are unecrypted and bad (low image quality) because apple makes it that way. Ignoring the RCS standard for so long was a choice they made to incentivize users from leaving apple and theyve only decided to now include some features of RCS due to increase scrutiny from the DoJ. Andriod users texting each other dont use SMS because it hasnt been the standard for years

Am i tripping or is there a small pro Apple bias in this video? The quality of argument seems unusual for polymatter

To System Integration: Making communications possible to competitors does not mean they have to gift away their features. The only thing apple has to do is to make specifications how the required Data is Transmitted. If Apple thinks that Making it complicated is better for some reason, they can still make it complicated. The communication is there (apple uses it). Apple is just holding it hostage. No one is forcing apple to add a sepetate Port for a competitors Feature.

I've watched your videos for years, but the arguments in this video were so poor, it made me question all the previous videos. I agree the DOJ could have done more, but ignoring the harm to consumers when a company has such control is misleading viewers. Apple continuing to take actions to not only maintain their monopoly but expand it in other markets (some only emerging) is very harmful to consumers and potential growth of various markets.

Polymatter casually making unfair arguments to defend the largest corporation in the world

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Bro… what’s going on with this video? The super apps argument isn’t valid because the original white paper states that “Apps that create alternate desktops/homescreen environments will be rejected” and it’s NOT even about Super Apps. It is very likely referring to the Android launchers that are available for users to create custom versions of their home screen environments (like completely copying the iOS home screen styles). It has absolutely NOTHING to do with Super Apps like Wechat. And the green bubble argument is missing the point - the fact that it creates a barrier that forbids android users to receive the same treatment in traditional messaging means like SMS, but NOT other cloud messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal. Apple has JUST recently added the RCS messaging feature, which enables Android and iPhone users to react and send high def. media in messages. Even this would be a much better argument. Tbh, It feels kinda off that Polymatter misses the point that far. Edit: Thanks for the likes. Fixed errors. Fun fact, I myself is using an iPhone, and had used two androids in the past.

After the content of this video I was honestly expecting the sponsor to be Apple.

I think that this vídeo fundamentally misses the point of it all, is not what users are getting is what users are missing, things could be so much better without the monopoly of apple every time that a monopoly has been taken back the users benefit

The worst thing about Apple is that they have a monopoly over the repair industry as well. They do not allow independent repair shops access to parts, and overcharge for repair. You should have included that in your video. Louis Rossmann has been advocating for Right to Repair for quite some time.

NGL.... This video misses a lot of point, and just seems to be defending Apple. The point about Green Bubble especially...... A bit dissapointing, because I thought Polymatter is a neutral, non-biased source of information :I

EU has long restricted Apple for their opportunistic tendencies. Now this. Finally we are taking back control over these corporations.

For a channel concerned with high quality unbiased reporting, this video sure stunk. The ground news sponsorship being super ironic

It seems like this video idea came straight out of Apple's HR department. I think you missed the entire point of what the lawsuit is claiming and why apple is being Anti-Competitive.

A weak video that has me questioning your previous videos. 1. You haven't talked about competing industry standards like RCS that support typing indicators, read receipts, high res media, E2E encryption etc. Apple greatly resisted implementing this & finally is doing in iOS18. I suspect this lawsuit is one of the main motivators. 2. Claiming that Alphabet has split Android, Search & Gmail into adversarial products is patently false. They, along with Drive/Docs form the backbone of integrated Google software ecosystem. 3. DOJ claims on super apps literally comes from internal Apple presentation that states "Apple cited super apps as a “major headwind” to boosting iPhone sales in countries where they’re popular because of “[l]ow stickiness” and “[l]ow switching costs.”"

Defending the incredibly anti-consumer practices of a soulless trillion dollar company is crazy

It always blows my mind how people still see Apple as the most superior phone brand. No matter how overpriced their phones get, people will still buy it. Even if they've been slowly removing features (like ports, only to upsell you cables and adapters), people will see right past it. Why?