AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac

Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by molszanski on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:02PM (#24386816)

> more attention than all of Apple's other atrocities combined;

In 2010 the've introduced FaceTime (revolutionary back then, especially on poor connections) and wanted to make it open, open standard etc. But they got half a billion lawsuit from a patent troll over P2P patent infringement.

In 2011 they've introduced iMessage that also relies heavily on p2p too.

It is 2020 and they are still fighting this troll in court over facetime 2010.

search: apple vs VirnetX

Knowing that, I just don't see this as clear cut as you on Apple being sneaky on teen psychology

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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by fungizid on Saturday September 05, 2020 @06:09PM (#24387246)

Apple has changed the design of FaceTime in response to the case. Why are they not opening it up now?

> Apple decided to redesign how it did FaceTime on a technical level as a way to bypass the patents (in essence, it stopped using an IP address as final authorization when creating a VPN between two devices and instead uses a push token, certificate and session token).

https://www.theregister.com/2019/11/25/apple_facetime_patent...

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