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Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by quantified »

meepmorp wrote: post #13

Do most Android users actually care one way or an another? IMO, it seems like there's a small, if vocal, minority of folks with a deeply weird inferiority complex around blue bubbles and most people don't care at all. None of my Android using friends seem to give a shit.

My kids both got social shit and low-level exclusion for being green, with stories of the same for their peers. It's like being seen as dressing in hand-me-downs. Shouldn't make a difference, and doesn't to the wearer, but it does to the others. All stupid yet thanks to the way people are socialized, true.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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shiroiuma wrote: post #55

What kind of people still use phone numbers to send messages to people? This is exclusively an American phenomenon; the rest of the world moved away from SMS ages ago. I don't think any of my iPhone-using friends or acquaintances even know what iMessage is.

Same for me in France, nobody uses iMessage, part of the issue is the lower share of iPhones and the other part is iMessage being branded as an SMS app will mean it will never take off since SMS are dead.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by smashah »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #72
onlyhumans wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that secure though?

I trust beeper eula more than meta's.

Make sure you get your dog or a random stranger to accept Metas terms and conditions on the accounts you may or may not be using otherwise they will try to send you legal threats based on their overbroad terms and conditions

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by fabifabulous »

cozzyd wrote: post #68

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).

In fact they are forcing the big messaging monopolies to open up. However, iMessage doesn‘t play a big role here. It‘s WhatsApp they are after and I‘m glad they are.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by aurareturn »

cozzyd wrote: post #68

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).

Why punish Apple for Google failing to create a good messaging service? Google failed to compete against iMessage in the US and failed to compete with Whatsapp worldwide. Now you want the government to step in to help Google make more money?

Let the competition dictate it. No need for the government to get involved. Maybe Google can spend $50 billion to create and market an alternative to iMessage if they truly care instead of these half-ass attempts once every 2 years.

Let's be real here. The only reason Google is pushing this is because they're losing Android users to iOS in the US due to the green/blue bubbles. It's a huge thorn for Android in the US. There is absolutely no reason any government, particularly, EU to push private messaging services to open up so Google can make more profit.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by shiroiuma »

realusername wrote: post #73
shiroiuma wrote: post #55

What kind of people still use phone numbers to send messages to people? This is exclusively an American phenomenon; the rest of the world moved away from SMS ages ago. I don't think any of my iPhone-using friends or acquaintances even know what iMessage is.

Same for me in France, nobody uses iMessage, part of the issue is the lower share of iPhones and the other part is iMessage being branded as an SMS app will mean it will never take off since SMS are dead.

Exactly my point. No one outside the US (not sure about Australia) uses SMS any more, it's a ridiculously antiquated technology. I guess Americans still cling to it because it's a huge country and they can send SMS to everyone they know in the whole world for free, since everyone they know is in America. For everyone else (or Americas who actually have friends outside America), SMS is stupid because sending them internationally is horribly expensive.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by aydyn »

alternatex wrote: post #76
smashah wrote: post #74

They should also add WhatsApp support

Then you just have Beeper. It costs a lot of money to maintain bridges to these messaging apps. It's not sustainable to have all of them in a single app.

you dont need a single app, you need a single protocol. For something so relatively simple, the only reasons to not unify standards are anti-competitive reasons.
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