Must have been all the posting I've been doing about green bubble bullying and privacy. Apple bringing RCS to iMessage next year!
You're welcome iPhone owners. You're finally getting up to date messaging capabilities. No need to thank me. We all now you're grateful. 😎👍
There is more to #iMessage than messages (there are games, utility, effects & business apps that have seamless integrationwith iMessage) so I doubt many #iPhone users will switch to #Android due to #RCS.
#Apple understands this as well, which is why they are willing to accept RCS as a “backup” messaging service.
Fellow #Apple#iPhone peeps, lend me your brains. I keep having an issue where iPhone-to-iPhone messages I send go out as green-bubble SMS messages instead of blue-bubble iOS Message app messages.
There are no non-Apple devices in the thread. It's just me and my wife, with an iPhone 12 Pro and and iPhone 12 mini. We're both on iOS 17.1.1, but this has been happening since at least iOS 16.
Any ideas what's causing this? A device issue? A settings problem? A carrier issue?
“#Apple has no intention to support #Google’s proprietary extensions to #RCS that allow for #E2EE end-to-end [#encryption, which is a feature of Apple's #iMessage]. […] Apple caving and deciding to support [RCS] will expand, rather than contract, the amount of messaging that is not E2EE.”
Now that #iMessage has been reverse engineered, open sourced, and brought to #Android via the #BeeperMini app, what's to stop other messaging apps like @signalapp from adding iMessage integration?
New Beeper Mini app lets Android phones appear as blue bubbles in iMessage chats
This is a dedicated stand-alone Android app by Beeper which will carry a $1.99 pm subscription after the 7-day trial period. It validates via SMS as an iPhone 7 (just as an iPhone would) so no Apple ID is required, but there is also an optional Apple ID sign ...continues
I know the weird reliance/obsession over #iMessage and what colours their bubbles are on their stock Messages app is a very US thing, but #Nothing working with #Sunbird to "bring" iMessage over to #Android is pretty cool or at least funny lol - it really highlights what trivial things people could care (too much) about.
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.
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).
@majorlinux Unfortunately, the problem with #Sunbird is that it does not have true #E2EE: they log into your Apple ID on a Mac Mini in a datacenter, and then decrypt and re-encrypt the messages on that Mac. The messages are encrypted in transit, but it is not end-to-end in any manner. This was confirmed in MKBHD's video.
This is kind of disappointing to me, because true E2E encryption is possible, I worked on my #pypush project which implements the #iMessage protocol from scratch (no Mac), #Beeper bought it so hopefully should be available in the future.
I was already highly considering switching to #Nothing, but this might lock me in.
"Nothing Chats is a first-of-its-kind app developed in partnership with #Sunbird, which allows you to message other #iMessage users via blue bubbles on your Nothing Phone."
Chatting MediaTek and Smartphone AI, Apple Caving on RCS, Sam Altman Heads to Microsoft as OpenAI Melts Down, and more advertisers dump Twitter!
Plus, what tech are YOU thankful for this year?
How Beeper Mini Works (blog.beeper.com)
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