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Nothing kills iMessage bridge because it profoundly violated user privacy
(appleinsider.com)
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Of course it did. Some random 3rd-party proxying plaintext copies of all users messages was never going to result in success.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Apple’s 180 on adopting RCS is because they realised people will risk stupid things in an effort to interop with iMessage, which tarnishes the brand.