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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What happended with forcing interoperability with different services like WhatsApp and Messenger? Would be great if we could just have one app for all messages like on Windows Phone back in the day 🙏

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matrix has good interop, you can use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve looked into using Matrix bridge to be able to communicate with iMessage groups from Android. There’s a repo / company called Beeper that seems to maintain some bridges.

But tbh haven’t spent enough time with it. Looks like a lot of setup and maintenance. Would LOVE to be able to talk to iMessage from android

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Beeper. There is a bit of a setup process adding the different chat networks but there's next to no maintenance in my experience. It pretty much just works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the downside is that it decrypts your messages on their server before sending them in either direction. so even if you use an e2e encrypted messenger like Whatsapp or Signal with it, Beeper could still read your messages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I miss the old days of Trillian, a single pane of glass UI for all the major IM networks, cross-service meta contacts, and the messaage history was kept client side.