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Re:Works With Nest by eddieroger on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @01:05PM (#7938839)
I'm misremembering - it was FaceTime, not iMessage. Whoops.

Unless I'm continuing to misremember, there was some patent issue that blocked FaceTime from working over cellular on the first version, but it was cleared up when AT&T finally accepted that they were the only carrier not supporting it.

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Re:Works With Nest by aisenik on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @01:37PM (#7939081)
No patent issue, just AT&T and money.

The patent issue is a DoD-connected company forcing Apple to abandon P2P and break the end-to-end encryption. Not unlike what happened with Skype, though quite a bit more hostile.

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