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US senator says iPhone is ‘ruining relationships’

Elizabeth Warren says iMessage promotes social exclusion for Android phone users

US senator says iPhone is ‘ruining relationships’
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23:00 - 21/04/24 por Miguel Patinha Dias

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Former presidential candidate and Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted that it's "time to break up Apple's smartphone monopoly," pointing to the green message bubbles assigned to Android phones in iMessage as a form of social exclusion.

"Green text messages on iPhones are ruining relationships. Yes, people across the country who don't have iPhones are being excluded from group chats — everything from neighborhood chats to sports team chats to birthday party chats to vacation planning chats," Warren said.

The Democratic senator from Massachusetts went on to call it a "dirty trick" by Apple to "stranglehold the smartphone market."

"Apple has used its smartphone monopoly to lock Americans into its services and rake in billions of dollars in profits," Warren said. "Apple even charges a fee every time you use tap to pay, and it blocked a new app that would have finally let Android users text with blue bubbles on iMessage."

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