The article specifically address this and explained the difference.
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stefenauris@pawb.social 6 months ago
We literally shut down another app doing this last week because it was so sketchy
Steve@communick.news 6 months ago
LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No. This is much more impressive, useful, secure, and sustainable because it’s totally different internally.
KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
You literally didn’t read before speaking.
Zak@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The other app was running iMessage on Macs owned by the company and relaying the messages insecurely to its Android app. What we see here is a third-party implementation of the iMessage protocol running on Android devices directly, an example of adversarial interoperability.