Comment on Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely

• Deebster@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re being unnecessarily pedantic. Apple was blocking interoperability and reverse engineering found a solution—and Apple is blocking that solution.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not being remotely pedantic.

    Apple reverse-engineered MS standards to improve interpretability so you could open Apple files on Windows and vise versa. They didn’t reverse engineer Windows security so that you could open Apple files on MS servers.

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    • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple reverse engineered a file format, Beeper reverse engineered a protocol.

      Microsoft made several changes to try to keep Apple out, Apple’s also made several changes to keep Beeper out, except now everyone’s online so it’s happening way faster.

      It’s not exactly the same kind of reverse engineering, but I never said it was. I think you’ve got a very narrow definition of reverse engineering in your head and you’re criticising me for using it more broadly than you would.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re hopeless

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