Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users

• tb_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which they will surely do with no caveats whatsoever.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re doing the GSMA standard and nothing else. I think they refuse to play ball with any standard Google controls either directly or indirectly.

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    • creed10@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hate apple as much as the next guy, but I respect them for that

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      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s just smart business. Why give up any level of control of anything to a direct competitor when you don’t have to?

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re not doing encryption, because Google is using their own.

  RCS is too little, too late. It sucks. I refuse to ever use it.

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