Comment on Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple's Blue Text Bubbles
800XL@lemmy.world 10 months agoOh, no kidding? Encrypted vs unencrypted too, or is that only it? I had no idea.
Totally agree that google just wants info tho.
Comment on Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple's Blue Text Bubbles
800XL@lemmy.world 10 months agoOh, no kidding? Encrypted vs unencrypted too, or is that only it? I had no idea.
Totally agree that google just wants info tho.
tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
iMessage does end-to-end encryption by default, but only between iMessage clients (blue bubbles). I believe (someone correct if I’m wrong) that android’s basic messaging app does SMS by default, which does not support encryption. So iMessage can communicate with android phones, but only by falling back to basic unencrypted messaging, which it displays in a green bubble.
There are other proprietary iMessage features too, like animated messages, that don’t work for android at all. And I suppose to be fair to Apple users, it is kind of annoying having an android in a group chat because tagging a message (thumbs up or whatever) doesn’t actually tag it, it just sends a message that says says “so-and-so liked a message”. Not worth bullying someone over, but I get the irritation.
Dkiscoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Android does RCS and only falls back to SMS or MMS because that’s all Apple will let iMessage use. RCS is an open standard that supports end to end encryption, full video and image sharing, and everything else iMessage does. Android can even translate iMessage message tagging and display them properly, but apple purposefully makes the experience worse if messaging non apple devices.