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Microsoft Completes Rollout of Basic iMessage Support on Windows 11
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Apple is not harming their customers in any way on this, people choose to use Android or Windows.For many Apple users, Messages is the reason they bought an iPhone or other Apple device. It's not in Apple's business interests to offer it on competing platforms. As you said, there are other apps that "offer" E2E encryption, so the argument that Apple needs to do the same is superfluous at best. WhatsApp is the most used messaging app on the planet right now, followed by Facebook Messenger- both owned by Facebook/Meta, a company hardly synonymous with privacy. Choose wisely!
Chuckling at the number of respondents who claim to have left Apple , but yet still following Macrumors and participating in forums.
That's what I was thinking. I use my A watch or iPhone to do that.
I didn't find the support for Android phones to be particularly good, so I stopped using it. I doubt the iPhone support will be better. Microsoft has some experience with Android and they have a Mac team with iOS support in Visual Studio, but that doesn't mean they'll be good at it. They always seem to spend 100% of their time to give 65% of the solution.
Will this work if your phone has no wifi or cellular, but your computer is hard wired? I would suspect not, but could be wrong.
That's only a limitation of IPhones on W11 not Android that has a lot more functionality than Iphone/Mac combo
And if an Apple customer wants to use the default messaging app, provided by the company that claims to care about its customers privacy, the app sends an unencrypted message if the other user isn't using an Apple product. That absolutely hurts Apple's own customers for no reason other than for Apple to maintain a competitive advantage.
Does anyone feel like this is still a half-baked Windows App? This App would be perfect for Microsoft Lumia.
Nope I don’t.
I heard through the inter-webs that this was Microsoft’s own employee training program. It first clears the mind of all previous thoughts, direction and sense of else, a mind wipe of you will.
The. By moving each icon box the employee, feeling mentally the age of a pre-schooler, can assemble the icon blocks to a false coherent list of accessible applications. Lol
I’m a bit surprised EU hasn’t addressed iMessage lock-in. Of course I have zero hope of US bought and paid for congress ever even thinking about thinking about considering looking into it.
I never owned a Wii, but isn't that just a game console too? I have a Switch too and I don't remember running across a weather app.
Yeah no. MacBook/IOS works perfectly. If you need a Windows system that badly, run it with get Parallels or Virtual Box.
Again thats a choice the consumer can make. But,SMS/MMS isn't encrypted between any platform, not just Apple.. You can also ask why Google and MS have failed to develop a compelling alternative. Google especially has been grossly inept at this and has just given up and resorted to whining endlessly.
rcs works pretty well on Android and is E2E encrypted.
The solution exists, Apple is the one not adopting it.
If we were on Facebook I'd give you the 'care' reaction.I wish
Google's implementation of RCS is hardly an open source standard. First it started out as an effort by the carriers and Google bastardized it with their own code...so its hardly a real choice.
Arstechnica has a very good article on this.
New Google site begs Apple for mercy in messaging war
Google is tired of losing so badly to iMessage, so it wants Apple to adopt RCS.
arstechnica.com
Well actually EU have done it already and it comes in to effect in September.
Well actually EU have done it already and it comes in to effect in September.
By law apple must allow interoperability if another service provider asks for it.
I'm sorry? Did you forget that apple promised that imessage would come to Android? And how will you invent a new sms standard when half the market(apple) won't adopt anything at all?
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They haven’t.
I think it’s hilarious how Google now positions themselves as the standards-bearer, just because none of their proprietary networks took off. Allo, Duo, Chat, Talk, Hangouts, Meet, and the 20 others I forgot.