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Sunbird shuts down its iMessage app for Android 'for now' amid 'security concerns' (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by flop_leash_973 to c/technology
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Whats sad is it doesn't even take much knowledge of technology to know the whole of Sunbirds "product" was a terrible idea even outside of security concerns.

"Hey! I've got a brilliant idea for a product that absolutely could not fail!, lets reverse engineer one of the prime services of one of the most protectionist and litigious companies in the world and publicly advertise and try to sell it to their competition and potential users as some sort of magic compatibility layer"! What could possibly go wrong?

~~It was a worse idea than Dolphin thinking they were going to get away with trying to monetize their Nintendo emulator.~~

EDIT: I was mistaken about Dolphin looking to charge for their emulator when they put it up on Steam, as pointed out by a few folks in the comments. They were just looking to distribute it on the platform. Still seems like wishful thinking to me though when talking about something related to Nintendo and IP.

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[–] metaphortune 3 points 1 year ago

I've said for the longest time, Apple could put iMessage on Android, charge for it, and make plenty of money (mine included). So I was very intrigued by Sunbird! But I took one look at Sunbird's website and knew something was wrong. Maybe it was the lack of a clear idea for how they'll make money or that they didn't initially disclose the technology behind it.

Suffice to say: I am not surprised by this.