With iOS 14 for iPhone, Apple added the ability to set third-party apps as defaults for mail and browser apps (and fixed a bug that lost those changes during restart with this week’s release of iOS 14.0.1). Now, privacy-trampling Facebook is criticizing Apple for not opening up iOS messaging to its Messenger app in the same fashion.
Facebook CEO Mark ZuckerbergReported by The Information, Facebook is publicly criticizing Apple again. Last time it was over the privacy ad changes with iOS 14, now it’s about messaging on iOS.
In the latest attack on Apple, Facebook executives are asking for the ability to have their messaging apps be the default on iOS. Facebook’s Messenger app VP, Stan Chudnovsky said Apple’s Messages app being locked as the default messenger isn’t fair and wants to see Apple mirror what Android offers.
On Android, users can choose a third-party app to be their primary messaging service which will also receive their SMS messages sent to their phone number. However, as The Information notes, Apple’s Messages app and encrypted iMessages are a valuable part of iPhone and iPad’s feature set and the company isn’t likely to give up control of iOS messaging, at least not unless it’s forced to.
MacDailyNews Take: The state of Android messaging is a dumpster fire engulfed by a wildfire in hell, so let’s set Apple’s iPhone messaging alight, too. Go pound sand, Facebook, you scummy data-harvesting privacy-peddlers led by a soulless doll-eyed thief.
Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y’know the thing about a shark, he’s got… lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then… oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces. – Sam Quint, Jaws
Well if you want law&order you’re going to have to allow congress to write regulations with teeth. Since your representatives are basically only puppets for rich corporations, Fackbook has made sure that they aren’t liable for anything. Same can be said for every entrenched multinational corporation. And the brainwashed right wingers think regulations are always bad, which plays directly into the hands of the oligarchy.
That is why the middle class is slipping into poverty while the top 1000 richest families own > 80% of all wealth/assets. Feudalism never ended, it simply got rebranded as rugged individualism. Cue Goeb to send out a personal attack, nuff said. He won’t bother to look at real economic trends or tell us how his party has actually attempted to clean up the deepened swamp.
A web address is all the access Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft should get on iOS. No defaults or apps in the appstore. All the smaller developers and iOS would be better off.
The sharks smell blood in the water. And the sharks are right…
Apple not only forces you to do business with them if you want to sell to an iOS customer. They also unfairly compete with their developers.
Did Apple write Facebook Messenger?
By anti-competitively having the only store, and fiat over what runs, the others are suddenly freeloaders?
Are the freeloaders on Windows and the Mac too?
Apple has to roll up it’s sleeves to support it’s devices create programs and hardware, because they are less than 15% of the world market, that is why Apple Pay, iMessage, Apple Maps or Apple Silicon exist, third parties can’t help you long term.
Apple should put the effort in, to make sure that they always have the best software
How are Apple “unfairlyl competing with their developers? They are allowed to have an advantage as they own the AppStore so they have that right.
Hey Mark,
We hear you man. We hear you. You’re delusional as fuck but we hear you.
Now please go the F away.
Cheers,
Earth.
Keep any Facebook apps off the iPhone!
And when I see something on Facebook or Instagram that I want to forward to someone, can I do that privately through iMessage or email?
Facebook has become a MAJOR worldwide nuisance and threat. It needs to be closed down and Zuckerberg needs to be put in jail.
Well if you want law&order you’re going to have to allow congress to write regulations with teeth. Since your representatives are basically only puppets for rich corporations, Fackbook has made sure that they aren’t liable for anything. Same can be said for every entrenched multinational corporation. And the brainwashed right wingers think regulations are always bad, which plays directly into the hands of the oligarchy.
That is why the middle class is slipping into poverty while the top 1000 richest families own > 80% of all wealth/assets. Feudalism never ended, it simply got rebranded as rugged individualism. Cue Goeb to send out a personal attack, nuff said. He won’t bother to look at real economic trends or tell us how his party has actually attempted to clean up the deepened swamp.
Ha ha ha! Good insight/interpretation, even perspicuous: “Feudalism never ended, it simply got rebranded as rugged individualism.”
Facebook should be required to suspend its operation 90 days before and 30 days after any national election.
Google is paying 10-13 billion per year to be the default search on iOS, Facebook can pay the same.
Note if Apple does this the smaller developers are the ones getting hurt, and they are getting by Google being there.
A web address is all the access Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft should get on iOS. No defaults or apps in the appstore. All the smaller developers and iOS would be better off.
The big five need Apple more than Apple needs them.
The sharks smell blood in the water. And the sharks are right…
Apple not only forces you to do business with them if you want to sell to an iOS customer. They also unfairly compete with their developers.
Freeloaders always do….
Did Apple write Facebook Messenger?
By anti-competitively having the only store, and fiat over what runs, the others are suddenly freeloaders?
Are the freeloaders on Windows and the Mac too?
Apple has to roll up it’s sleeves to support it’s devices create programs and hardware, because they are less than 15% of the world market, that is why Apple Pay, iMessage, Apple Maps or Apple Silicon exist, third parties can’t help you long term.
Apple should put the effort in, to make sure that they always have the best software
How are Apple “unfairlyl competing with their developers? They are allowed to have an advantage as they own the AppStore so they have that right.
F—- Zuck!
Rather than that… how about making iMessage available (even with a stripped down feature set) to Android users?
No what’s the point to buying iOS or Apple devices, Google has done enough damage by giving Asian companies a mobile OS.
As long as I can keep my Green Bubble…
No green bubbles.
No, just no, iMessage needs to stay an exclusive to iPhone because that’s giving away one of the major selling points of the iPhone.
Why the F… will I want to do that.