Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
by worthless-trash on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:42AM
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Except if you want pebble an iphone, thats the loss.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
by freehorse on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @09:31AM
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Automating imessages has been an official thing in macos since ages that i know of, but it is done on a computer rather than a phone. The argument that opening up automation for imessage will increase spam does not hold, just because automation is already opened up, thus whatever spam this allows or not is already here.
EDIT: example script to run from a mac terminal:
osascript -e 'tell application "Messages" to send "$message" to buddy "+12345678" of (1st service whose service type = iMessage)'
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
by theragra on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:43PM
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So similar to democracy vs authoritarianism argument. If I live in Europe, why should I care that Russia is a dictatorship?
Because it affects my life, and can be fatal even, thats why.
> If I don't want it, let me turn them off.
Can you it off for anyone sending you messages too?
That's the issue; you not wanting to use it does not mean that spammers won't use it.
That's the problem. You can't have nice things if some people can use it to abuse the system; and there are a lot of people who will.
> But my point is this isn't something unreasonable for a user to want.
This ignores the reality which is that doing it in a way that gives a nice user experience without an enormously painful security issue is really non trivial.
Maybe it's OK to have the choice?
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If you love your android phone, don't care about iOS, don't like iphones.... why do you care? I mean, why does it upset android users when they see this sort of thing for people using iphones?
It mystifies me. If you love you phone, and you think it's better, then use it.
Nothing lost right?