Apple Is In Serious Trouble...
Summary
TLDR视频讨论了美国政府对苹果公司提起的反垄断诉讼案,指出苹果通过其封闭的生态系统限制了市场竞争,特别是在应用商店和iMessage服务方面。提到了欧盟的数字市场法案对苹果施加压力,要求其开放服务和数据访问,以及苹果在消息传递质量上对非iPhone用户的负面影响。视频倡导苹果应更新其技术标准,以提供更好的跨平台用户体验。
Takeaways
- 📱 视频讨论了从iPhone切换到Android的经历,并指出Android提供更多自由和选择。
- 🚀 讨论了美国政府对苹果提起的反垄断诉讼,强调反垄断法的重要性,以保持市场的公平竞争。
- 📈 引用了ftc.gov上关于谢尔曼法案的解释,该法案旨在维护自由和无拘无束的贸易竞争。
- 💻 回顾了历史上的反垄断案例,如美国对微软的诉讼,说明了大型科技公司可能面临的法律挑战。
- 🌿 讨论了苹果的“围墙花园”策略,即通过控制软件和服务来锁定用户在其生态系统内。
- 📱 指出苹果的iMessage服务在iPhone用户之间提供更好的消息体验,但对Android用户则不然。
- 📱 强调了欧盟数字市场法案(DMA)对苹果作为“守门人”的监管,要求其允许第三方服务在其平台上互操作。
- 🌐 讨论了苹果拒绝更新其消息服务以支持RCS(富通信服务),这影响了Android和iOS用户之间的消息体验。
- 📉 诉讼中提到苹果的行为可能会阻碍新技术的发展,如云服务和流媒体游戏,这些技术可能会提高智能手机的竞争。
- 💬 强调了苹果通过降低非iPhone用户的消息体验质量,间接地提高了iPhone的市场份额。
- 🔄 讨论了政府介入的必要性,以确保技术发展和市场竞争,同时为用户提供更多的选择和更好的体验。
Q & A
为什么演讲者从iPhone切换到Android设备?
-演讲者认为iPhone和苹果产品虽然很酷,但是过于限制性。他觉得Android设备更有趣,比如可折叠设备等,并且Android设备可以让用户访问到更多的应用,不像苹果设备那样受限。
什么是反垄断法(Antitrust laws)?
-反垄断法,也称为谢尔曼法案,是旨在维护自由和无拘无束竞争的经济自由的全面宪章。它禁止所有限制贸易的合同、组合或阴谋,以及任何垄断、企图垄断或共谋垄断的行为。最高法院早已裁定,谢尔曼法案并不禁止所有贸易限制,只禁止那些不合理的限制。
美国政府为何要起诉苹果公司?
-美国政府起诉苹果公司的原因在于,苹果公司作为市场上的主要参与者,其商业行为可能违反了反垄断法规。政府希望通过法律手段确保大型科技公司不会形成垄断,保持市场的公平竞争。
苹果的“围墙花园”策略是什么?
-“围墙花园”是指苹果公司通过其产品和服务创建的一个封闭生态系统。苹果用户通常只能在苹果的App Store中安装应用程序,这限制了用户的选择,并使得用户更倾向于购买苹果的其他产品,如iPad或Macbook。
什么是“蓝色气泡”和“绿色气泡”争议?
-“蓝色气泡”和“绿色气泡”争议指的是iPhone用户和Android用户在使用消息应用时的不同体验。iPhone用户之间通过iMessage发送的消息显示为蓝色气泡,而Android用户或者与Android用户通信时则显示为绿色气泡,后者的功能和体验相对较差。
为什么说苹果公司的消息策略对社会有负面影响?
-苹果公司的消息策略通过降低与非iPhone用户通信的体验质量,间接地使得非iPhone用户感受到社会压力和排斥,这可能导致用户因为想要更好的通信体验而被迫选择iPhone,从而加强了苹果的市场主导地位。
美国政府在诉讼中提到了哪些可能被苹果公司压制的技术?
-美国政府在诉讼中提到了超级应用、云流媒体游戏应用、跨平台消息应用等技术,这些技术能够提高智能手机之间的竞争,但苹果公司通过限制这些技术的使用,影响了市场竞争和技术的发展。
什么是RCS(富通信服务)?
-RCS(Rich Communication Services,富通信服务)是一种通信标准,旨在改善传统的短信体验,提供类似于iMessage的功能,如高清图片和视频分享、群聊、消息状态指示等。RCS是行业标准,已被许多Android设备采用。
为什么演讲者认为苹果公司应该更新其消息服务?
-演讲者认为苹果公司应该更新其消息服务,以采用RCS等行业标准,这样可以使所有用户无论使用何种操作系统都能获得更好的通信体验。这不仅有利于用户,也有助于促进市场的公平竞争和技术的进步。
演讲者对于苹果公司目前的法律挑战有何看法?
-演讲者支持美国政府对苹果公司的法律挑战,认为政府的论点合理,有助于打破苹果的市场垄断地位,推动技术创新和市场竞争。演讲者还指出,苹果不仅面临美国的法律挑战,还面临中国和欧盟等其他地区的类似压力。
演讲者对于苹果公司的“围墙花园”策略有何建议?
-演讲者建议苹果公司应该开放其生态系统,允许第三方应用和服务在苹果设备上更好地运行和交互。这样不仅可以提升用户体验,还能促进市场竞争和技术的发展。
Outlines
📱 从iPhone到Android的转变
该段落讲述了演讲者从使用iPhone转向Android设备的经历,并分享了他对这两种操作系统的看法。演讲者认为,尽管苹果产品很酷,但相对而言有些限制性。他赞赏Android设备的多样性和功能,如可折叠设备,并提到了美国政府对苹果提起的反垄断诉讼案。演讲者解释了反垄断法的重要性,举例说明了微软历史上的反垄断案件,并强调这些法律的目的是防止大型科技公司形成垄断,保持市场的公平竞争。
💬 蓝色气泡与绿色气泡的争议
这一部分讨论了iMessage服务和它所代表的蓝色气泡与Android用户使用的绿色气泡之间的区别。演讲者解释了iMessage如何为iPhone用户提供更高质量的通信体验,包括更好的多媒体传输和加密标准。相反,当iPhone用户与Android用户通信时,由于苹果不采用现代的通讯协议如RCS,会导致通信体验下降,如媒体质量降低、缺乏加密和不安全的通信。演讲者批评了苹果在这方面的不作为,并提到政府正在介入,要求苹果改进其服务。
📱 苹果的封闭生态与市场竞争
在这一段中,演讲者讨论了苹果如何通过其所谓的'围墙花园'策略来保持用户在其生态系统内。这包括限制用户只能通过App Store安装应用程序,与Android用户的自由选择形成对比。演讲者提到了欧盟的数字市场法案(DMA),该法案要求苹果等大型平台允许第三方服务在其平台上互操作,并允许用户访问和控制他们的数据。演讲者认为,这些法律和政策有助于促进市场竞争,提供更多选择,并改善用户体验。
🤔 苹果面临的法律挑战
演讲者在这一段中详细讨论了苹果公司面临的法律挑战,特别是美国政府对其提起的诉讼。诉讼中提到,苹果的行为可能会扼杀新的市场范式,如云计算和跨平台的应用程序,这些都有可能削弱苹果在智能手机市场的主导地位。演讲者还提到了苹果如何通过限制第三方应用程序和消息服务的质量来维持其市场地位,包括绿色气泡在通信中所传达的低质量信号。演讲者强调,这些行为不仅对非苹果用户有害,也损害了苹果用户的利益,因为他们被剥夺了更好的产品和服务的选择。
🚀 呼吁苹果开放其生态系统
最后一段中,演讲者呼吁苹果开放其生态系统,允许使用如RCS这样的行业标准通信服务,以改善所有用户的消息体验。他指出,苹果在某些地区已经开始被迫这样做,但不是因为公司自愿,而是因为法律的要求。演讲者表示支持政府介入,迫使苹果改变其政策,以便用户可以享受到更好的服务和产品选择。他还提到了谷歌一直在推动苹果改进其服务,并鼓励苹果用户支持这些改进,以获得更好的通信体验。
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Keywords
💡iPhone
💡Android
💡Antitrust
💡Walled Garden
💡iMessage
💡Digital Markets Act
💡Cloud Computing
💡Super Apps
💡RCS
💡Gatekeeper
💡Social Pressure
Highlights
个人从iPhone用户转变为Android用户的经历分享
对苹果产品生态系统的封闭性提出批评
美国政府对苹果提起反垄断诉讼的介绍
反垄断法(谢尔曼法)的基本解释
历史上的反垄断案例,如美国诉微软案
苹果的“围墙花园”策略及其对用户的影响
欧盟数字市场法案对苹果作为守门人角色的指控
蓝色气泡与绿色气泡争议的背后含义
政府介入迫使苹果更新其通讯服务的讨论
苹果通过降低非苹果用户消息体验来维持其市场优势的指控
诉讼中提到的苹果利用机制压制技术竞争的五个例子
苹果的iMessage服务对跨平台通讯体验的限制
苹果被要求支持的富通信服务(RCS)及其对行业标准的影响
苹果在全球范围内面临的法律挑战
对苹果是否应该开放其生态系统的公众意见分歧
苹果的iOS与Android在用户体验和安全性方面的比较
苹果在全球法律压力下可能做出的改变
对苹果诉讼案的个人看法和公众反应的期待
Transcripts
hello guys and gals me mudahar I used to
be a blue bubble iPhone user until I
switched to ladies and gentlemen a green
bubble Android
Andy now uh I'll be real I switched back
to an Android because as cool as iPhones
and apple stuff is it's a little bit too
restrictive okay do you want to have
access to like every power user
application available well you're going
to have to go with Android and generally
I find the Android devices to be a
little bit more interesting I mean like
come on foldable devices let's be honest
a million cool things that you can do
with them that apple is not taken
advantage of but that being said ladies
and gentlemen uh today we're talking
about the fact that the United States
government yeah the biggest government
in the world is suing Apple now of
course you might have heard about the
Apple antitrust case well antitrust is a
pretty important thing in the entire
world to give you an idea what antitrust
basically is now for anybody that
follows the tech industry or anybody
that knows the history of these big tech
companies like Microsoft Apple Google
you probably know what the what
antitrust actually means so to give you
an idea according to the
ftc.gov antitrust laws or also known as
the Sherman Act is a comprehensive
Charter of economic Liberty aimed at
preserving free and unfettered
competition as the rule of trade so to
give you an idea the Sherman Act Outlaws
every contract combination or conspiracy
in Restraint of trade and any
monopolization attempted monopolization
or conspiracy or combination to
monopolize long ago the Supreme Court
decided the Sherman Act does not
prohibit every Restraint of Trades only
those that are
unreasonable so to give you an idea
obviously antitrust law exists in a
million shaped ways and forms and one of
the most popular cases that people refer
to is United States versus Microsoft
Corporation where if you actually read
through the ENT section over here you
can see that the case that the uh US
government is making under the Sherman
Act is Microsoft possesses Monopoly
power in the market for personal
computer operating systems Windows os
are used over 80% of intel-based PCS the
dominant type of PC in the United States
more than 90% of intel-based PCS are
shipped with a version of Windows
pre-installed and if you actually read
through this case it doesn't even feel
like a lawyer wrote it it actually feels
you like again
just people looking at the tech industry
at the time and making an actual
educated analysis as to why Microsoft
was basically being the deao bully King
right I mean they even went into things
like looking into their actual uh web
browser dominance and whatnot but
obviously dominance is one thing the
reason antitrust laws exist is to make
sure these big tech companies don't
become cartels or run a cartel so
basically the idea here here is
obviously if the if these if these laws
didn't exist Apple Microsoft Facebook
Google would probably eat up all the
competition and just completely run an
entire industry but because of antitrust
laws there are actually you know people
in place the government jumps in to
prevent these guys from getting just way
too powerful okay and if they do decide
to go beyond buying and eating up the
entire competition they're either forced
to break up or they get fined up the
apps for doing so so again how does this
Whittle on into Apple so to give you an
idea Apple has something known as the
wall garden now the wal Garden is
basically Apple's uh you know showcase
as to basically keeping people locked
within their ecosystem if you buy an
iPhone you're probably going to buy an
iPad or a Macbook or something in their
other Library just so that all of your
devices operate between each other and
Beyond just the devices the software
that's built into that device is
entirely controlled by Apple So when you
buy an iPhone you don't have the option
like Android users to install any app
store they want or any application they
want outside of Google's Play store if
you buy an iPhone you're only able to
install apps via the App Store and no
I'm not including the side loading that
people mention through other
applications I am strictly saying that
most of those almost everybody who is
using an iPhone is typically locked to
the App Store and that's pretty much how
it goes so there have been a couple laws
apple is basically been getting chewed
out by the entire world so for instance
the digital markets act all the way over
in EU is basically pushing apple as a
gatekeeper okay they're basically a big
dog and not just their phones but
services like iMessage okay so to
whittle this on to something more
relevant uh for people watching the
average Andy you might know about the
blue bubble green bubble controversy
right so when you are an iPhone user and
you message another iPhone through the
messages app it gets sent as a blue
bubble that's because iMessage is not a
traditional messaging service it's kind
of like WhatsApp it's an actual social
media messaging service just because
you're texting another iPhone it all
happens seamlessly you message people
with blue bubbles they get a better
version of messaging with you better uh
multimedia gets uh transmitted uh
encryption is of a higher standard it's
basically seamlessly better to message
between iPhone people now when you
message an Android person we're not part
of iMessage okay when we message you
we're the green bubble because Apple
defaults back to the green bubble and
they don't use any modern I say modern
but this is 2008 technology like RCS
because Apple just falls back to
traditional SMS meaning that all of the
media you send looks like dock [ __ ] when
you're in a group chat you're basically
ruining the experience for everybody
involved and there's no [ __ ]
encryption so also it's unsafe to be
sending messages and apple refuses to do
anything about it and that's why the
government has stepped in to basically
force them to update their [ __ ] so
looking into this right now you can
actually see that when they talk about
Gatekeepers what they say in the dma is
it basically means Gatekeepers have to
allow third parties to interoperate
within the gatekeeper's own service in
certain specific situations
and then allow their business users to
access the data that they generate in
the use of The Gatekeepers platform and
of course what they also say is
Gatekeepers May no longer treat services
and off products offered by the
gatekeeper itself more favorably in
ranking than similar services or
products by Third parties they basically
want people to have actual competition
and people to actually update their
stuff and have more Choice which is
ultimately a good thing anybody that's
taking Apple side here is literally
being uneducated this is all designed to
make your experience especially as an
Apple user more enjoyable and more
fulfilling and free now because of that
dma apple is basically being forced to
unlock their app stores and allow third
parties only in the countries and
Regions they're legally forced to so if
you're in the European Union because of
that act you can one day get epic games
installed onto your iPhone run fortnite
all outside Apple's ecosystem because
they're basically being forced to by
Apple now if you're in the United States
Canada because the law doesn't reflect
that well you don't get to be part of it
apple is literally complying to all of
this stuff because the government is
putting a gun to their head
metaphorically so at this moment in time
because of laws like that the US
government decided to actually Sue Apple
a couple days ago and we're going to
read a few excerpts from that actual
case because it's [ __ ] hilarious so
for instance in this complaint it starts
off like this in 2010 a Top Apple
executive emailed Apple's then CEO about
an ad for a new Kindle e-reader the ad
began with a woman who was using her
iPhone to buy and read books on the
Kindle app she then switches to an
Android smartphone and continues to read
a books using the same app the executive
wrote the jobs one message that can't be
missed is that it's easy to switch from
iPhone to Android not fun to watch and
this is kind of the ethos of apple right
it's not difficult to leave the iPhone
ecosystem there's plenty of iPhone you
know uh people that will say I can't
switch I'm already balls deep into this
right and to think about the ecosystem
how Wild it is is that Apple basically
built this platform not because they
were selling Mac systems beforehand in
fact they almost went bankrupt trying to
compete with Microsoft or really the
general consumer PC market it wasn't
until the iPod dropped and the iPhone
dropped that all of Apple's entire
fortunes turned around see the thing
about the iPod is it wasn't just the
iPod Hardware that sold like hot cakes
it was iTunes for a long time when I was
growing up people would purchase an iPod
and strictly buy their music from iTunes
they weren't buying it from anything
else they literally bought it from
iTunes because it would cost a buck it
was easy to get part of and you could
instantly sync it to your iPod now of
course beyond all of it when the iPhone
dropped it wasn't like smartphones
didn't exist before the iPhone they did
they were just hella clunky compared to
Apple's actual iPhone it gave you a
bunch of features and it was actually
easily usable it was intuitive it was
actually an amazing revolutionary
product and that iPhone is what keeps
apple sitting in the gravy there is that
is the strongest product they have ever
made thus far and no matter what what
you say iPhones if you want a phone that
just works they're not a bad buy even if
they are a tad bit on the expensive side
one of the things they mention in this
lawsuit is Apple's conduct also stifles
new paradigms that threatens Apple
smartphone dominance including the cloud
which could make it easier for users to
enjoy high-end functionality on a lower
priced smartphone or make users device
agnostic altogether as one apple manager
recently observed imagine buying a
Android for 25 bucks at a garage do sale
and it works fine and you have a solid
cloud computing device imagine how many
cases like that there are so what
they're basically saying over here is
that or alleging is that Apple will
actually stifle their software make it
just so iPhone appear Superior to their
actual people when in reality if they
enabled a couple pieces of Technology
like RCS the messaging experience
between Androids and iPhones would be a
lot better but Apple doesn't want that
to happen they don't want people to
think that switching to the other side
or going to the other side of the Iron
Curtain or godamn defecting in this case
is something that is possible okay
that's literally what's being alleged
here and again if you're an iPhone user
you should actually want Apple to make
their devices better compatible with
everything else around you it just makes
the experience better it doesn't make it
unsafe don't listen to Apple adopting
latest Technologies is not unsafe it
should just be something that they
should do so it gets even Wilder about
this stuff too is they highlight five
examples of Apple using their mechanisms
to suppress technologies that would
actually increase competition between
smartphones so what they mention are
super apps providing a user with broad
functionality in a in a single app super
apps can improve smartphone competition
by providing a consistent user
experience that can be prop ported
across devices suppressing super apps
harms all smartphone users including the
Apple users as well
then they have Cloud streaming game apps
provide users the way to play Computing
intensive games in the cloud cloud
streaming games can improve smartphone
competition by decreasing the importance
of expensive hardware for accomplishing
High compute tasks then they mention the
messaging applications that allow you to
communicate with everyone around you
messaging apps that work equally well
across all smartphones can improve
competition amongst them by allowing
users to switch phones without changing
the way they Comm communicate with
friends family and others and that's
true like me and my wife JY she has an
iPhone I have an Android okay we used to
use iMessage now we use apps like signal
which allow Android and iOS users to
have better messaging experiences
between each other all without Apple
basically ruining the experience just
between devices then they always mention
things like SmartWatches and then
digital wallets as well but where this
lawsuit gets actually hilarious is 0 90
okay so the funniest Point here is point
90 in addition to degrading the quality
of third-party messaging apps Apple
affirmatively undermines the quality of
rival smartphones for example if an
iPhone user messages a non- iPhone user
and apple messages the default app on
iPhone then the text appears to the
iPhone user as a green bubble and
incorporates limited functionality the
conversation is not encrypted videos are
pixelated and grainy and users cannot
edit Ed messages or C typing indicators
this signals to users that rival
smartphones are lower quality because
the experience of messaging friends and
families who do not own iPhones is worse
even though Apple not the Rival
smartphone is the cause of that degraded
user experience many non- iPhone users
also experience social stigma exclusion
and blame for breaking chats where other
participants own iPhones the effect is
particularly powerful for demographics
like teenagers where the iPhone share is
85% this social pressure reinforces
switching costs and drives users to
continue buying iPhones solidifying
Apple's dominance not because Apple made
its phone better but because it has made
communicating with other phones worse
true actually true now I think if you
stigmatize people for the green bubble
you're a [ __ ] shallow [ __ ] okay
simple as that but unfortunately it's a
piece of shallowness that exists
okay now I don't give a [ __ ] if I walk
into a group chat and I'm the green
bubble I will continue to use my Android
device because it is a genuinely better
device in my honest opinion but that
being said the fact that I am ruining a
group chat is not the fault of my device
my device can participate in those group
chats and a lot of those iMessage
features the only hindrances is Apple
and of course this is something that
obviously Google has constantly been
pushing Apple to fix const constantly if
you go to
android.com get the message this is an
actual campaign that's been going on for
a while and it touches upon these same
issues blurry messages shitty group
chats and just terrible messaging
experiences and all that needs to happen
literally all that needs to occur is
Apple enables or works with Google to
enable RCS which is Rich communication
Services which by the way is an industry
standard okay if Apple started doing
that most of these issues would be
alleviated and the iMessage experience
even if you have green bubbles would be
far more usable than you could imagine
the only reason green bubbles suck is
because Apple refuses to update and they
refuse to catch up with the times and
intentionally make the experience worse
to make their devices look better and in
some regions of the world Apple actually
has to enable something known as RCS
which is coming some time to iPhone in
the year
2024 and why is Apple doing this it's
not because they want to in any way it's
because they are legally being required
from my understanding and belief by
numerous regions around the world so
yeah iPhone or sorry apple is getting
sued by the US government and honestly
I'm actually on the US government side
over here because their actual arguments
do make a lot of sense Apple exists as
sort of a gatekeeper to having a good
experience not just for other people
interacting with their devices but for
people who are Apple users themselves
look if you like iPhone cool and you
might be wondering muda what if this
makes iPhone unsafe Apple's wal Garden
keeps me safe the reality is if Apple
allows you to sideload Applications you
don't have to sideload an application if
you want Total Safety you can actually
get security by sticking purely to the
App Store all that does is give actual
people the choice which is the most
important thing and we're talking about
messaging services what is the issue
with adopting technologies that allow
you to interact with All Brands all
operating systems properly using
services like RCS look at the end of the
day iMessage is never going to be opened
up that's a proprietary thing that Apple
will safeguard till their dying [ __ ]
breath but if you're getting green
bubbles at least update the standard to
make sure that interacting with other
people isn't a mess look at the end of
the day it's entirely up to Apple if
they want people to join in or not but I
think this is when the government has to
get involved because if Apple's not
going to change and update their stuff
to catch up with 2008 standards then
this is when the government has to step
in and basically force them to unlock
their Fisher Price phone and take us
into the modern day and age but yeah
apparently uh the US government has
taking them to task over the blue green
bubbles and honestly it is the funniest
[ __ ] that I've read in quite a long time
but ladies and gentlemen let me know
what you think about this in the comment
section below Apple seems to be [ __ ]
but honestly a company as large as them
can probably keep this going for a fair
bit of time but they're not only going
up against the United States they're
going up against the Chinese they're
going up against the European Union
every major region that they're playing
in and that is a [ __ ] sight to behold
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