Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by stemlord on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:16PM (#43402774)

And I'll be the contra to your take: the iMessage ecosystem is so closed that everyone without iphones can barely even interact via sms with iphone users. This is overall such a huge problem that it makes the closed ecosystem security solution not a practical solution

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by op00to on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:44PM (#43406625)

I’ve never had an issue texting via SMS since iMessage was available. Now, I can do RCA as well. What issues should I have encountered?

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by vessenes on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:54PM (#43406709)

Nope, SMS works. Just fine. Apple rightly warns you that you are in a lower security environment by adding a bit of visual friction. This is true EVEN IF you are using RCS, because European laws require termination and inspection when RCS messages “interoperate” and are sent to other providers.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by DirkH on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:39AM (#43424788)

This is something I agree with. The world would be more secure if we made SMS obsolete and Apple making a push away from it is arguably net positive.

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