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.
@darnell@zuck as a foreigner I don’t get #iMessage popularity in the US. The clients are total crap, a lot of features are lacking, the UI is not very nice, it's a hassle to set up if you change sim cards, activating requires SMS (which have roaming fees if abroad), they lock out any non-Apple user (which is a significant portion of the world), etc. (1/2)
Service-Toot: Die Messenger-Matrix wurde aktualisiert. Die Empfehlung für Threema wurde angepasst, nachdem nun ein formaler Sicherheitsaudit für das Krypto-Protokoll vorliegt.
#Apple threatens to remove #FaceTime and #iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security under a proposed security bill amendment, dubbed a “snooper's charter”
We go hands-on with all the new features and changes coming to the Messages app as part of iOS 17, including a redesign, Check In, Live Stickers, and more.
I've composed an email to my dad and siblings proposing that we start using #Signal for group messages and video calls. I have wanted to switch to an #Android phone for a while now, but #iMessage and #FaceTime are some of the last big hurdles to me ditching #iPhone for good. I haven't sent the email yet...I don't know why I'm so worried about it. I guess I just hate to be "that guy" who doesn't want to do what everyone else is doing and cause them inconvenience.
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.
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.
“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.”
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?
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.
Have you switched to a proper end-to-end encrypted messenger app yet?
The new year is a good time to do that!
Try @threemaapp or @session and let anyone out there using Telegram or Meta (Facebook) Messenger or WhatsApp or iMessage/SMS know that there are better options available now.
Recently I was adjusting my son’s parental control on his tablet, and thought ya know I guess I really should just allow my iCloud.com email (that I don’t really use) to make me more findable for messsages and FaceTime.
Not even 47 hours later I r had four scams texted to me and randomly added to some crazy group. Uh no. We’l just leave that stupid thing turned off now. Yikes.
Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can’t Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols (daringfireball.net)
Link to: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081
Apple warning it could shut FaceTime, iMessage in UK over gov't surveillance policy adds to growing tech industry discontent | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The list of mainstream Internet services that could shut down in the UK over security risks attached to government policymaking just got longer...
Hands on with all the new Messages features in iOS 17 (appleinsider.com)
We go hands-on with all the new features and changes coming to the Messages app as part of iOS 17, including a redesign, Check In, Live Stickers, and more.
Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning. (www.bbc.com)
Signal Messenger, iMessage, and others could be forced to scan for child abuse images under the Online Safety Bill.