Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
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Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#2Fascinated to know what API enables this. Is there some sort of Bluetooth access to notifications, perhaps? Wouldn't explain non-participation in group messages, though.
Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#3Wouldn't be the first time that Microsoft has tried to integrate with a third party chat service against said chat service's wishes: https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5635488/msn-messenger-vs-...
And Microsoft has been on the other side of this with third party skype users, too.
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#4Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).
Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#5Fascinated to know what API enables this. Is there some sort of Bluetooth access to notifications, perhaps? Wouldn't explain non-participation in group messages, though.
I believe that's an API used by non-Apple smartwatches that allows basic notification access and I guess text replies. I assume they just parse out the text messages from the notifications?
Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#6I believe this is just using the Bluetooth features meant to sync with car infotainment systems. I don't see that going away, but I also don't see this as performing like anything more than a clunky hack.
Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#7Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).
Sounds like you need to deactivate iMessage:
Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#8Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).
Having lived all over the world, but not the US, I don't think I've sent or received an SMS/text message once in the last decade (except for bad 2FA implementations).
Apple's weird and semi-transparent (to the user) hybrid system of mixing a proprietary web protocol and SMS in the same app is obviously problematic, and the rest of the world moved on to other messaging services, but it's weird that the US is still stuck on this.
Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#9Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).
Having lived all over the world, but not the US, I don't think I've sent or received an SMS/text message once in the last decade (except for bad 2FA implementations). Apple's weird and semi-transparent (to the user) hybrid system of mixing a proprietary web protocol and SMS in the same app is obviously problematic, and the rest of the world moved on to other messaging services, but it's weird that the US is still stu…
It is a little odd that the US is so iMessage-heavy when the rest of the world isn't but IMO relying on another proprietary protocol (i.e. WhatsApp) really isn't great either. I kind of think everyone is in an awful place.
Re: Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
#10Fascinated to know what API enables this. Is there some sort of Bluetooth access to notifications, perhaps? Wouldn't explain non-participation in group messages, though.
It is probably using the Message Access Profile[1], commonly used by cars. Its likely very stable, but is very limited.
1: https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/message-acces...