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This article claims resetting your apple ID password will disassociate the imessage phone number: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
I had the same issue when switching to a Nexus 5. https://appleid.apple.com Try going here and removing the phone number from the "Phone Numbers" section. I still have friends who try to message me and their iOS assumes I'm using iMessage. The "retry as SMS" feature is the only method that works.
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So, what's an open-source alternative to iMessage that lots of people use?
The reason iMessage works well is because it's integrated tightly into the OS. So for an open-source alternative to be competitive, it would have to run on... an open mobile OS, which would in turn require open hardware.
I don't see the need for absolutely open hardware for an alternative messaging system. Sure, they aren't FLOSS solutions, but they are much less closed than iMessage and are cross-platform.
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And it possibly costs you new business cards, and having to let everyone know that you have a new number, and changing any social profiles, etc. ...or Apple could stop making crappy software like this ;)
Unfortunately Apple has zero incentive to fix this bug. Why should they care about customers they already lost?
If not... you should do so.
If you give people the radar number they can duplicate it at that same site and raise its priority.
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A data-only plan still has a carrier-provided phone number, and it will still default to that phone number when sending iMessages, happily ignorant of the fact that it can't call or text or MMS.
You're talking about invisible implementation details. My iMessage/FaceTime are set to use an email as the only ID. No one else knows or uses my data-only phone number. Just like they don't know or use my IMEI number.
The fact that you must go and manually change it to your email address for outbound iMessages is the part that's invisible.
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So, what's an open-source alternative to iMessage that lots of people use?
The reason iMessage works well is because it's integrated tightly into the OS. So for an open-source alternative to be competitive, it would have to run on... an open mobile OS, which would in turn require open hardware.
I'm not 100% clear on this: why can't there be an open mobile OS that runs on (bootrom-exploited) iOS devices?
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The reason iMessage works well is because it's integrated tightly into the OS. So for an open-source alternative to be competitive, it would have to run on... an open mobile OS, which would in turn require open hardware.
Heh? Have you tried solutions like Whatsapp, GroupMe, or Viber? They all work absolutely fine on both big mobile OSes, regardless of hardware. I don't see the need for absolutely open hardware for an alternative messaging system. Sure, they aren't FLOSS solutions, but they are much less closed than iMessage and are cross-platform.