But yes you can install a third party app like Google Voice with its own phone number and send text messages through it.
You would really trust any third party to intercept your sms messages?
On top of that, the third party dialer integrates with the native dialer and call history.
Not OP but I trust Thunderbird on my PC to access my emails so why I could not also trust a Mozilla or other trustworthy company to access my messages on my phone where in my case the SMS is used by companies to send me notifications about billing , I am the type of person that will call someone(people in my group don't send SMS)
I install any random crap on my phone and tablet because I know they can’t do too much damage between the better permission model and sandboxing.
And how say allowing a reviewed and sandboxed Firefox or a side loaded version that I would enable using some convoluted steps affects you personally? I don't demand Apple to make you less secure just want competition and no restriction, if I need say a power tool like a firewall or to run some custom scripts as root let me as a power user do that in a way you won't be affected - there must be such a solution because I do not see OSX user getting hacked left and right.
There is competition - you can choose the same mobile operating system that 85% of mobile users choose - Android.
there must be such a solution because I do not see OSX user getting hacked left and right.
A company you may have heard of corrupted user’s operating systems if they had system integrity protection turned off....
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en
Or another “trustworthy” company installed a web server surreptitiously on users computers so even when they uninstalled the software, it reinstalled itself.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/articl...
If you believe these are core OS functions, and therefore not subject to competition, Microsoft has a old story to tell you about Internet Explorer web browser and Windows 95 OS.