New: #DeAppleification project 🍏

Good hardware, if overpriced ✔️

Bad software & services, deliberately lacking #interoperability ❌

Today, I shut off Apple's closed #iMessage service entirely. Now using #Beeper as a universal inbox, with #Signal, #WhatsApp & #Slack DMs ✅

Goal: shutting off all 🍏 services will make it much easier to switch to cheaper hardware in future. Which is why Apple’s entire business model depends on tying their hardware to their software & services

#RefusalToSupply

Less positively, Meta is rejecting #interoperability requests from non-messaging services, and business-focused services 🤨

Less positively, Meta is rejecting #interoperability requests from non-messaging services, and business-focused services 🤨

Baaaam! With #Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source

Baaaam! With # Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Why Matt Mullenweg went to war...

Baaaam! With # Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Why Matt Mullenweg went to war...

Baaaam! With #Beeper, "you can have multiple #Signal accounts and multiple #WhatsApp accounts, all in one device... We figured out how to make this all run locally on your device, and so it’s just as secure as using one of these native apps" https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source

Well: #Signal could also choose to interoperate with #WhatsApp, at least in the European Economic Area, thanks to #DMA Art. 7 😉 /cc @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qdxfevnn55hicrntj6repflr/post/3lrqf6qqdqc2q

Well: #Signal could also choose to interoperate with #WhatsApp, at least in the European Economic Area, thanks to #DMA Art. 7 😉 /cc @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qdxfevnn55hicrntj6repflr/post/3lrqf6qqdqc2q

New: #DeAppleification project 🍏

Good hardware, if overpriced ✔️

Bad software & services, deliberately lacking #interoperability ❌

Today, I shut off Apple's closed #iMessage service entirely. Now using #Beeper as a universal inbox, with #Signal, #WhatsApp & #Slack DMs ✅

Goal: shutting off all 🍏 services will make it much easier to switch to cheaper hardware in future. Which is why Apple’s entire business model depends on tying their hardware to their software & services

#RefusalToSupply