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Someone did this in the past and of course Apple immediately shut them down. The only reason they wouldn’t would be if they were under immense pressure from the FTC.
Right, Apple will never see this coming. 🙄
Nothing of substance. All gimmicks
Why does the color of the chat bubble matter?
It matters because you can't have it.
It doesn't, but it means you can use a bunch of other features that aren't available by SMS.
Yeah, nobody cares about the color of a chat bubble, but iMessage's functionality (like replies, reactions, and large uploads) is very useful.
I don't know if I'd call that "hacking", it's just making a third-party iMessage client for Android devices.
Isn't this kinda redundant now that Apple's gonna have RCS apparently?
The U.S is just a crazy country. Parents created this problem by buying their kids some overpriced hardware, and of course young, susceptible humans full hormones and incompletely developed brains, looking to discern themselves from millions of others, found a way to do so: exclusive features in their overpriced bubble --> chat colors suddenly matter.
But if you can pretend to belong and it's cheaper (?), way to go. I hope the EU forces Apple to make iMessage interopable like WhatsApp and other apps.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That is the hard-to-believe plan from upstart phone manufacturer "Nothing," which says the new "Nothing Chats" will allow users to use "iMessage on Android" complete with a blue bubble sent to all their iPhone friends.
According to a Washington Post article with quotes from the CEOs of Nothing and Sunbird, Nothing will "start" rolling out "an early version" of Nothing Chats with iMessage compatibility on Friday.
Surely, any Android OEM offering "iMessage" support would immediately have the project shut down by Apple.
Sunbird has claimed to be able to send iMessages on Android for a long time, has missed its deadline for launch, and generally doesn't come off as a serious company.
Doesn't hacking into iMessage with a third-party client violate Apple's terms of service, possibly leading to an account ban?
Instead, the Sunbird people focused on how great it would be if the whole world could hold hands and share access to blue-colored chat bubbles.
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