Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’

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Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’
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Blue texts are sent using proprietary encryption. Green texts are standard SMS/MMS protocol. Apple has pressed GSM to include encrypted RCS for SMS/MMS. The government is not a fan. She can be upset, but there’s no reason for Apple to give away proprietary encryption software or foot the server cost for transmission.

First of all proprietary encryption is BS which should be equated to obfuscation instead of encryption.

Second, I think I've addressed this:

but their ads etc have pretty consistent emotional messages. Yes, they do endorse it.

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