Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS

penquin@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• decodehug647@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It seems like all efforts to “bridge” imessage to anything outside apple software work this way - there’s a Matrix bridge and a dedicated open source app and they both rely on the imessage client on a mac. Is there a legitimate reason for it not being reverse-engineered yet?

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  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there a legitimate reason for it not being reverse-engineered yet?

    The actual protocol isn’t a secret. It’s that the authentication of the device relies on a hardware key, and that key is fully locked down by Apple (as it also secures the user’s biometric logins, keyring, financial information in Apple Wallet, etc.).

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    • scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If it relies on a hardware key then why is it that I can get the same setup working with a macos virtual machine?

      Using [BlueBubbles] (bluebubbles.app) for anyone wondering.

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• EvokerKing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use beeper (a version of these apps that is actually released but kinda shit) and it’s perfectly fine. Their solution would be better because it runs locally on the phone, however it’s only on supported phones which is most likely just nothing phones.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  More likely just a Linux VM

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  • teatowel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    iMessage only runs on Apple products

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …or a virtualized Apple product on a Linux machine. iMessage doesn’t know the difference.

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