Reminder that Apple uses a technology literally invented in 1984 to brainwash their users into thinking anyone using a non-Apple device is poor.
This lie is rampant and reinforced by the billionaire CEO of Apple, the richest company to ever exist.
Apple intentionally makes their devices bad at communicating with other devices because it means kids without Apple devices might get bullied into giving Apple more money. Apple knows this, and plays into it.
#Followerpower. Die Überarbeitung der Messenger-Matrix ist nun vollständig abgeschlossen. Über einen Tipp/Klick auf Teilen würde ich mich riesig freuen, damit sich die Messenger-Übersicht (weiter) verbreitet. ❤️ 👍
Of course Apple is going to support RCS, they literally have to as it’s the replacement for SMS and afaik required for 5G certification. They dragged their feet to try and pretend they weren’t interested, and the people who suffered most were their own customers who got a crap experience.
This is how Apple weaponizes their own users.
But hey, I guess it is one less barrier for me ever considering using an iPhone? 🤷♂️ Now let’s do sideloading.
I suspect that the eventual cross-platform solution to the incompatibility between #iMessage and #RCS in the #USA will just be everyone downloading an app like #Telegram (which is a honeypot) or #Signal, much how everyone uses #Whatsapp internationally.
Which I am sure that neither #Apple nor #Google wants.
Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely. This is likely the final nail in the coffin for what Beeper has been trying to accomplish.
I know #WhatsApp is popular amongst Americans 🇺🇸 who travel outside of the country, but I doubt #Meta will replace #iMessage in the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 in the near future.
#Apple has already lost to #Facebook Messenger in #America 🇺🇸, so in a sense @zuck has already won.
I've not been able to find much info about how the RCS standard works and whether it's end-to-end encryption; Apple seems to think that its encryption needs to be improved to bring it up to iMessage's encryption standard.
“It’s easier, and more comfortable, for #Google to argue that it’s all about the #GreenBubbles. The hard truth is that #iPhones and #iOS are simply better overall.”
Switched from iMessage to Telegram again because iMessage often feels sluggish and only my wife and I were left there.
Now I realized there's no app for the Apple Watch? What the heck? When did this happen? In used it very often back then. Why is it gone? That's a huge bummer and makes Telegram much less useful.
It really is nice that #Mastodon is featured on the App Store today.
I've been noticing that a few folks at #Apple have become more enthusiastic about the #Fediverse during the last 6 months, to the point that #iMessage now recognizes Mastodon links.
Again, more speculation from my part, but it wouldn't surprise me if Apple was considering more ways to bring Fediverse adoption to the masses.
Over the past year, I’ve received dozens of spear #phishing/#smishing SMS text messages pretending to be from my employer’s CEO or another executive. Today I got my first one marked as an #iMessage (#Apple’s exclusive messaging service—the “blue bubbles” in your #iPhone Messages app).
This is pretty troubling—it means #scammers are getting past Apple’s defenses in addition to abusing the porous patchwork of SMS providers and networks.
Apple to finally bring RCS to iPhones: But alongside iMessage
I was really sure this was an early April Fool’s joke, but it appears to be genuine…
Apple will keep its iMessage as-is, so that won’t affect its security, and they don’t want to bring iMessage either to Android (as that would lose them customers).
THIS has to be a zero-day somehow! There's NO #API for this on the #iPhone! If #Microsoft is using one, it's a backdoor that MUST be closed!!! A #WindowsPC sending an #iMessage is one step from a virus on #Windows doing something to ALL your #iMessages!
@leo: Does Steve (GRC) have any inkling as to the severity of this?
It is crazy that in the conversation around #imessage on #android with #beeper was the unspoken assumption that #apple would be happy to foot the bill for android users to use their service for free and let a third party company charge a subscription for using Apple resources.
Why would that ever work? What company would ever agree to that?
Letzte Woche ging die Nachricht um die Welt, dass US-Geheimdienste# Push-Nachrichten bei #Apple und #Google abschnorchelten. Hier ein Überblick über Dienste, die davon nicht betroffen seien:
I haven’t acrually had one of these, and it made an amusing read. Many people expect packages and unthinkingly might respond. EVRI are a delivery company in the U.K. (I verified that), but the url is not correct even though it starts with EVRI.
I’m not sure whether this is just a data gathering exercise or whether I will have to validate it with card details, and I won’t bother having a look. Some will….