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Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
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US senators have urged the DOJ to probe Apple's alleged anti-competitive conduct against Beeper.

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[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

They have reverse engineered the iMessage API

Yes, this part is legal and fine.

and are using that to connect to the iMessage servers.

This is not allowed because Apple doesn't want to allow it. They own the infrastructure serving the API, they get to determine who is authorized to use it. They can block whoever they want. And technically speaking, using it in an unauthorized manner could even rise to the level of a criminal violation of the CFAA.

It is literally impossible to do as you suggest (use entirely their own resources) because iMessage is centralized and cannot federate with any other server, even if one did exist.

Partially correct. It is not impossible to do as I suggested, because I never suggested that they should have interoperability with iMessage.