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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 realusername »

shiroiuma wrote: post #79
realusername wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 inte…

Yes that exactly what happens. iMessage became the "your package is being delivered" app since pretty much only parcel delivery company are sending SMS.

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

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Post by tinus_hn »

lurking_swe wrote: post #63
danielbln wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

German here, everyone I know uses Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram.

and you only need 3 separate apps to communicate with people. what a mess.

So you’d rather use iMessage where you can only communicate with iPhone users.

Or do you want the open, subpar protocol instead?

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

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Post by shiroiuma »

realusername wrote: post #81
shiroiuma wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 inte…

Yes that exactly what happens. iMessage became the "your package is being delivered" app since pretty much only parcel delivery company are sending SMS.

Yep, that, and 2FA, are the only times I get SMS messages. No actual humans use them now where I live, just automated systems run by businesses.

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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

aydyn wrote: post #80
alternatex wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> the only reasons to not unify standards are anti-competitive reasons

It's spam.

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

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Post by codedokode »

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).

You can just install Telegram and send messages on any platform including desktop. Why use telco-controlled, unencrypted RCS?

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

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Post by nicolaslem »

codedokode wrote: post #85
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).

You can just install Telegram and send messages on any platform including desktop. Why use telco-controlled, unencrypted RCS?

All these conversations are always a rehash of "use this proprietary thing instead of that other proprietary thing". I am baffled that the conversation never ventures into technologies that put the user in control.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by AniseAbyss »

happymellon wrote: post #69
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? No one uses RCS in the EU, who would Apple users talk to?

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

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Post by user_named »

aurareturn wrote: post #78
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…

You are extremely confused since you belive EU wants Google to make more profit.
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