They tried to make a bazillion messenger apps, all of which failed, and now they try to piggyback on an existing standardized protocol but don't expose any APIs for other apps.
While at the same time pushing this "Apple is bad because green bubble" narrative because Apple doesn't support it. It's somewhat amusing in some ways. Companies (Google or Apple) are never on the consumers side, and yet we fall for it all the time.
It genuinely surprises me how often the HN crowd falls for it.
I would have expected them to be more aware than the average consumer of how tech companies use lock-in to trap their users.
Perhaps there's a blind spot because lots of HN folks work on projects or for companies that (hope to) use the same tactic?
Apple phones are simply good to use and work well. Me getting a generic phone and installing Arch Linux in it or something will have little effect on its own. But it will make my life very inconvenient!