Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
by kop316 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:12AM
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Fair enough. For a day or so I was looking up if I could somehow emulate iMessage on a Pinephone, and I remember a lot of it being a non-starter unless you had an iPhone. It stuck out to me that Apple had their own MMSC for some reason. But perhaps it is old news or I read the wrong post?
Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
by jonfw on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:50PM
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On an iphone, when you send a text message, apple will take a look at the phone number you're sending it to and check if it's linked to an imessage account. If it's linked to an imessage account, you're not sending a text anymore, you're using an internet service just like whatsapp.
There is no technical relationship between SMS and imessage, but to the user it's the same interface
I don't believe this is true. To the best of my knowledge (and a quick Google) Apple has no MMSC servers. I've certainly never input any.
SMS and MMS sent on iOS use the same servers an Android phone would. But when the target phone number is detected as being iMessage capable that whole system is ignored and iMessage is used instead.