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[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

how could no one have forseen the most obvious outcome in the world coming?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From a business perspective, this was the stupidest possible investment. There is no way Apple was going to let this fly.

Why would you sink so much money into such a stupid product?

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

A lot of people seem to live in a delusional bubble where they don't realize all the shitty things about apple products are by design.

[–] gex@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Back in 1999 MSN messenger had support for chatting with AIM users, it was quickly blocked by AOL and for a while there was a game of cat and mouse between Microsoft and AOL until Microsoft quietly dropped the feature

https://archive.ph/20120526215641/http://www.news.com/2100-1023-228960.html

[–] Pseudonaut@lemmy.today -1 points 7 months ago

Yep. I wish Beeper had just stuck with the PC and iOS apps.