Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 months agoTo be fair, Google’s messaging plans and implementations have been all over the place for a decade. Apple still should have been more proactive. They promised iMessage would come to Android until they realized how much of a moat it became for their business.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Apple has no obligation to use any of Google’s or Google’s preferred communication standards. They can open up the iMessage protocol or they can use literally any other open standards (like Signal’s).