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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by kop316 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:12AM (#26970307)
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?
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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by jonfw on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:50PM (#26974026)
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

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