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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by madeofpalk on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:51PM (#43403301)
What are the limitations of integrating via notifications? That seems like the user-respecting method. For example, I don't use iMessage or SMS, but WhatsApp.
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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by criddell on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:50PM (#43404169)
I'm just guessing, but notification suggests you could respond to an incoming message but maybe you can't initiate an outgoing message?
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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by djfdat on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @10:07AM (#43412203)
Haven't looked into this, but along with that:

- Multiple replies

- Edits

- Scheduled send

- Voice message

- Tapbacks

- Message history

- Message order is reliant on notification order

- Delays in the notification system could be different than the messaging system

- Opaque nature of message going from notification system -> messaging system, difficult if message is lost/not sent with no indication of why

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