I’m sure Apple was dragged, kicking their feet and screaming all the way, into banning all the competing services too…
What would be the point? If they don’t remove it, do you imagine they’d still be selling iPhones in the country?
Actually - yes I do. Kicking out Apple would be a huge blow to both the Chinese and American economies. I’m sure China wants to do that, but right now they cannot do it.
Do you think anyone has ever criticised X Jinping in iMessage? Obviously the answer is yes - and yet iMessage is allowed while every other major (foreign) social network has just been banned. iMessage was exempt because they don’t dare do anything against Apple.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
capital@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I assumed the Chinese government had a back door in that version of iMessage.
I’d be glad to be wrong.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah you’d be wrong. Apple is very open about how it the security model works - which is very similar to Signal and fully encrypted.
Their claims about how it operates have been confirmed by open source developers reverse engineering the protocol (e.g. Beeper).