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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by threeseed on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:50PM (#29901289)
Right now though there is no one standard which is a good thing for competition and security.

And you want instead to move the world towards a single, insecure standard, dictated by carriers who have decades long history of (a) supplying data to governments, (b) selling data to random third parties, (c) intercepting messages for their own nefarious purposes e.g. advertising and (d) doing very little to secure and protect their platforms from abuse.

No thanks.

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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by sangnoir on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:59PM (#29901741)
> Right now though there is no one standard which is a good thing for competition and security.

There already is a standard, one which Apple falls-back to when messaging Android: SMS.

The would-be-dystopia you describe well in your second paragraph is not a hypothetical: that is the world as it is today with SMS; Apple could change that by switching to RCS + encryption extension and protect their users' privacy, but they won't because they view it as a competitive wedge (we know this due to the Epic lawsuit, as mentioned in TFA)

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