Ties? Trump is the main freakin’ character.

iMessage is one of the largest enablers of ostracization and teen bullying. It’s a stupid cult - people see green text in their chats and they freak out. Apple knows this extremely well, and profits from it. Apple couldn’t give two shits about the degraded security either. They know this pressures their users to be locked in to their platform, and pressures people outside to buy into it or suffer being on the outside of their cult. This quick move to cut off Beeper makes Apple’s disregard for teens, security, and their own users painfully obvious. So long as they can coerce people into buying into their locked and incompatible system, Apple will continue to fuck everyone.