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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

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  • Works over any internet eg wifi. You don’t need to have a subscription to anything at all to use iMessage.

    • Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

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  • Because RCS is provisioned by the telcos and the telcos won’t let them.

    Want end to end encryption, have to use Google Messages, not Samsung Messages, both RCS. How’s that for interop?

    RCS is a mess and not the savior.

    • Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

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  • It requires provisioning by your mobile carrier. iMessage doesn’t.

    Anyone advocating for something that isn’t OTT has been living under a rock.

    • Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

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  • It is controlled and monetizable by the telcos. It isn’t better. And it’s barely standardized. Google sells a service to telcos to implement RCS that doesn’t really work well with anyone else’s RCS, or didn’t.

    Go look at the amount of threads with people saying “my RCS message from my Samsung didn’t get to my friend on T-Mobile with a pixel”.

    This is not the future anyone deserves.

    • Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

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  • I guess. I’m American and interact with plenty of friends via discord, instagram and others. My friend group has a private discord and I use DMs instead of iMessage all the time.

    • Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

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  • RCS is basically proprietary RCS.

    It is not open, it is controlled by the telcos, and google has been pushing their own proprietary version of RCS to the telcos.

    It’s no better than iMessage. This isn’t a problem in the rest of the world, they just all use WhatsApp.

    This is a legacy of the US being out in front of adoption of SMS, and it still being ingrained. It’s largely only a US problem. And it’s not even really a problem.

    I love iMessage, but I have WhatsApp and signal and like 19 other apps that offer messaging for people who prefer it.

    • Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

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  • That was from 2013.

    • Potential disaster awaits Haiti as U.S. prepares for armed intervention

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  • The 2,500 Haitians killed so far this year might think otherwise.

    • Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China

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  • I think the issue is they’ll have to do much more work to get to those stores if they become remotely popular as a vector for bypassing censorship.

    The minute people are using f-droid at scale to bypass controls and censorship, f-droid is going to get firewalled if it isn’t already.

    China isn’t on the open internet. It’s a game of whack-a-mole for them, but they’re pretty good at it and throw a lot of bodies at this.

    The average user won’t be jumping through the hoops required to make this work.

    • Accurate.

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  • It’s an unpopular take here I would guess, but because they have the money to do it, and it’s the right thing to do.

    The unfortunate thing is the actual actors/writers/producers aren’t getting paid because they’re paid per stream that Disney or whatever won’t count because it’s pirated.

    • D or d come on

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  • Get some anger management help.

    • sooo....

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  • Breaking the locking mechanism while doing no damage to the plastic fender is an amazing feat.

    • D or d come on

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    • An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway

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  • They read it as unicor n hence the emoji.

    • An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway

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    • Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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  • lol. This thread is about people mad that google is doing it, and you’re saying so what if a nation state does it?

    The answer is the same either way - to either sell the data to a party who want to manipulate you into doing or thinking what they want or by directly manipulating you into doing or thinking what they want.

    Same with Reddit and lemmy. It doesn’t take a whole lot of investment (on a state level actor basis) to manipulate small and large communities or individuals into thinking something is normal or mainstream. Or convincing them that everyone loves this product or it’s so popular or whatever.

    The CCP censors their entire internet for their people and collects all sorts of information to root out dissidents. What good thing do you think is going to come from them having that data?

    • Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?

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  • This is it. The weakest part of most doors is the door. A sledge hammer will go through a door or window regardless of the lock.

    Smart locks are way more convenient and the ability to grant timed access and unique access controls probably makes them more secure.

    • Xinjiang vs USA subway

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  • It’s 124 years old, and has more stations than any other metro/subway in the world.

    Yes, it should be better, but this is not exactly a fair comparison.

    • When you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?

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  • The best tuna salads have celery not onion, and some have sweet pickles in them too.