My wife uses Android and always has. I (man) use iPhone and always have. We're in the US and neither of us are techies.
What a silly thought.
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My wife uses Android and always has. I (man) use iPhone and always have. We're in the US and neither of us are techies.
What a silly thought.
Siri-ously? Android users feel so inferior that they're willing to pay actual money to diguise their use of actually inferior equipment? Come on, if it bothers you that much, just buy effing Apple hardware, and donate your Android crap to a women's shelter.
If people could afford $2/mo then they wouldn't be on Android to begin with! Just kidding...
Seriously though, I don't care about green/blue bubbles. I just want to be able to send/receive my Android friends better quality pictures etc. SMS/MMS sucks. So excited for Apple to at least adopt RCS for that.
Seriously though, I don't care about green/blue bubbles. I just want to be able to send/receive my Android friends better quality pictures etc. SMS/MMS sucks. So excited for Apple to at least adopt RCS for that.
You think that $16 million was just "free money" ?
Just watched the SnazzyLabs vid that goes over the technical details, and I've gotta say, this one looks pretty dang legit. So long as the devs aren't lying about their encryption (they're inviting independent review, so let's look for that) this looks like about as close to perfect interoperability as you can get without Apple themselves releasing an Android client.
The survey says women dislike green bubbles more than men, so your scenario wouldn't apply (unless you are also a woman) . I do agree that it's a silly survey and not vouching for the validity of it, but absent any other data it's ok to make observations.
How could it possibly be "pretty dang legit"? Accessing Apple servers without permission? Claiming e2e encryption to an unverified endpoint?!?
I also watched that video, and I’m actually impressed with this implementation. It really sucks that Apple won’t just release iMessage for Android and be done with it. Sure, some people may switch to Android, but overall I think the iPhone and the Apple ecosystem offers a much better overall experience, so I don’t think that many people will jump ship completely.
It is hilarious to me how defensive and misinformed Apple mafia is over this.
I'd actually pay for official iMessage on Android. It'd be very functional and useful. Tie it to iCloud backup.
Wow that post is a ride! I mean, no copied code so no plagiarism. Google has developed their own messaging app... like, loads of times, they can't seem to stop, it's honestly a meme at this point. Tensor is based on Samsung's Exynos lineup, nothing to do with Qualcomm's Snapdragon line. Google's RCS is actually more well developed than the version of RCS that Apple will be implementing next year, though Apple claims they're working with the GSCM on that. And this app didn't reverse engineer an "exploit", it's Apple's notification framework as designed, they just figured out how to tap into it using the same methodologies as hackintosh users, who haven't exactly been locked out yet.
Wild how just about every sentence there was wrong! Let's see, anything else? Oh, right, this app wasn't made by Google. Like, Google had nothing to do with it. So your open letter to Google at the end there is uh... seemingly in the completely wrong thread.
I'm still hung up on the women's shelter comment. I can't tell if it's straight up sexist or just in bad taste.
It's hilarious to me the lengths Android (L)users will go to in a vain effort to look like Apple users! Y'all ain't foolin' no one, podner!
"pretty dang legit" in that it works just about exactly like iMessage does from the user's perspective. The security question is separate from that, but like I said they're inviting third party verification of their claims so it might not be a bad idea to actually wait for that third party verification to happen. At least on the Apple server end of things it's using Apple's own encryption.
I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad Pro 12.9" M1, MacBook Pro M1, 1 homepod, 4 homepod minis, and 3 AppleTV. But I also have a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 for no reason other than because I can.
I guess I'm a loser for wanting to be able to also get my messages on the one of my 11 devices that isn't made by Apple.
Not trying to fool anyone. I enjoy Pixel these days more than iPhone, simple as that. Bonus that file / image / video sharing just became 1000x easier.
Apple will simply deep-fry every Mac serial number (spoofed or real) on that GitHub. You might be able to get around it if you have an existing Apple ID that only has one beeper connection and looks like legitimate usage. I'm sure Apple will disable it entirely but people with actual Macs and android phones will probably chug along for a little while.
I thought Apple's whole M.O. was that they waited for technology to develop/mature, so by the time they released their own product it would be fully fleshed-out and a much better experience?
That happened with Blackberry/PDAs, that happened with the OG Windows tablets from the early 2000s, and it looks like that might also happen with AR/VR. Hell, you could even argue that happened with BBM.
It can't be both ways. They can't wait for the technology to develop while simultaneously being copied.
I agree, which once again is why I advocated for waiting on that third party verification of their security claims in both my previous posts.
wtf does this mean? I hope this was copied and pasted from text provided. This is not a good explanation.
You won’t be laughing when your number gets sim swapped because you let a third party service intercept your messages.
They are both massive for-profit companies and I don't care who copies who, for whatever reason they want to copy, nor do I care who came first or invented something first..
Use what is best for you and ignore the silly "who's on first" nonsense of companies who don't care whether you exist or not.
In other words he’s used to having Apple swoop in and ruin his business model.
They did replicate it, so many times. Hangouts was it. Then they had another chance with Google Chat.
But Vic Gundotra basically ruined Google by burning everything on the altar of Google+