Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely::The Apple-versus-Beeper saga is not over yet it seems, even though the iMessage-on-Android Beeper Mini was removed from the Play Store last week. Now,
Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely::The Apple-versus-Beeper saga is not over yet it seems, even though the iMessage-on-Android Beeper Mini was removed from the Play Store last week. Now,
You know what to do, the EU Government.
They already have
TL;DR: imessage and other big message services must be able to send messages to each other (when
iMessage isn’t included in that act, since it’s not big enough in Europe.
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As said by noodlejetski, iMessage usage in the EU is very low. It hasn’t been excempt completely though, it’s pending investigation.
What exactly are you implying they should do?
Apple has already agreed to adopt RCS. Although the exact implementation they didn’t specify and will likely be “bare minimum”.
Are there any FOSS RCS apps for Android?
The only RCS apps, to my knowledge are Google Messages and Samsung Messages.
Not sure why.
Well as I can’t use either of those on my degoogled Android device, Apple using RCS is irrelevant, and they should use a more open standard, like Matrix.
Matrix is a terrible standard but otherwise I agree.
What do you suggest, I was just giving an example.
Signal protocol is probably the best open standard?
Hard to say, they all come with their compromises but Matrix would never work, it’s just too slow.
Signal removed it’s RCS support:(
Unfortunately RCS is on the carrier side. The most basic chat system built in by the phone carrier will likely have RCS.
Antitrust laws prohibits killing off your competition. Just because they will have RCS, doesn’t mean they didn’t actively killed beeper.
LOL that’s some impressive mental gymnastics. Beeper is not “competition”. If Beeper started their own messaging service, they would be competition. But that’s not what they did. They were literally hacking Apple’s servers and impersonating Apple devices so that they could use Apple’s service, then tried to charge consumers money for the privilege.