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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Especially with RCS coming to iMessage, rich media features will no longer be gatekept by blue bubbles.

Kids will still also bully other kids for having androids even if they downloaded an app to make their bubbles blue.

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  • [+] -23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hahaha

    RCS is not even in the same century as iMessage or other modern messengers. It's still tied to your SIM card. No SIM, no RCS. Why would I want to go back to the 80's for a messenging app, when I already have one in SMS?

    You won't get a blue bubble still. It'll still lack encryption. You'll still cause a downgrade of iMessage groups to RCS if one person doesn't have iMessage, AND you still have the same downgrade issue to SMS if one person doesn't have RCS. I don't use iMessage much but I'm sure there are other things that won't be anywhere as good.

    Besides RCS sucks. It's no more reliable than SMS (I'd say worse because it often doesn't notify you when a message fails, which for something supposedly modern is a sign of a major flaw - at least SMS has the excuse of being built on top of cell management, as a best-effort mechanism).

    Metadata isn't protected like other messengers (Signal, Briar, SimpleX, etc). Even iMessage protects Metadata better.

    RCS is something that cell vendors and Google, etc are doing just to prevent losing control over messaging and the data gathering it offers.

    I will never use RCS. If people tell me that's all they'll use, oh well.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Most of this isn't true, at least not for Google's implementation of RCS which has e2e encryption, delivery and read receipts, the ability to send messages from the Web app ect. Maybe you need a SIM card, I don't know.

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