> There are literally multiple internal Apple emails released through court testimony where Apple executives clearly explain how important iMessage is to lock-in to iPhone and how if parents can just buy an Android and install an iMessage app it would mean disaster.
I’m genuinely interested. Do you have a link?
Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
by altairprime on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:28AM
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You misunderstand. I don’t care about Apple’s desire for lock-in at all. I want Google RCS to implement, and make mandatory, secured device identifier attestation. I want to be able to block the actual hardware devices that spam me through carrier messaging. RCS could have offered that, and doesn’t. What a shame.
Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
by lern_too_spel on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:48AM
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Why does RCS need to do that? RCS replaces SMS as the baseline interoperable protocol, not the iMessage protocol.
In none of these emails is spam or privacy or security even mentioned.
The primary reason Apple is doing it for platform lock-in, plain and simple. They literally said so themselves internally. Any other explanation is fanboyism.