Posted 2/13/2024, 6:27:00 AM
FCC Commissioner Urges Investigation Into Apple Blocking Third-Party iMessage Service for Android Accessibility
- FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said the FCC should investigate Apple blocking Beeper Mini service which brought iMessage to Android
- Beeper Mini claimed to have reverse-engineered iMessage to work on Android, but Apple repeatedly blocked it
- Beeper gave up on Beeper Mini after calling the efforts to make iMessage work on Android "unsustainable"
- Carr said this should be examined under FCC rules that communications services should be accessible and usable for people with disabilities
- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers previously requested the Department of Justice investigate Apple's "potential anticompetitive treatment" of Beeper