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Is that secure though?
Obviously not. You have to hand over your plaintext credentials to a third party to explicitly copy over each and every text.
I was just thinking of doing this myself. I'm hoping Apple doesn't shut it down. I recently switched to an iPhone because all of my friends use iMessage (I'm in the US). I'm not happy about having to switch, but it's how they choose to communicate and it's a heck of a lot better than SMS/MMS. I'm planning to buy a used Mac Mini and connect it to some messaging gateway or build my own. Then I can use whatever phone I…
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German here, everyone I know uses Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram.
Whatsapp and Signal can only use phone numbers, though? And Telegram requires a phone number (though you can also have a username).
I was just thinking of doing this myself. I'm hoping Apple doesn't shut it down. I recently switched to an iPhone because all of my friends use iMessage (I'm in the US). I'm not happy about having to switch, but it's how they choose to communicate and it's a heck of a lot better than SMS/MMS. I'm planning to buy a used Mac Mini and connect it to some messaging gateway or build my own. Then I can use whatever phone I…
Hopefully the EU (or, in an alternate reality, the US) will eventually force Apple to finally implement RCS messages (or, less likely, open up iMessage).
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Whatsapp and Signal can only use phone numbers, though? And Telegram requires a phone number (though you can also have a username).
Telegram needs a phone number register but then you can text people only by username. Both Signal and WhatsApp have announced usernames, Signal already has a beta version of the app with username support out.
Unless it's an actual feature, you are tied to a phone number.
All the examples require your phone number.