Too late. They are clearly abusing their monopoly position to lock in users and degrade the experience of non users. This is clear anticompetitive behavior.
They have further begun abusing their monopoly position to force customers into paid iCloud storage in order to use iMessage as intended (anyone curious should attempt to opt out and then try to manage iMessage iCloud storage. It is impossible in hilariously pointed ways)
I have been contacted my attorney general and the FTC to request that they take action against Apple for illegal anticompetitive practices.
I recommend everyone else here do the same. Apple and non apple customers will be equally benefitted by anti trust action. (Which is obviously the point of government intervention)
In what way do they "degrade the experience of non users"? If you have an iphone they will use imessage and you get all the features. If you are not in an iphone they try to shoehorn the features as best they can (e.g. instead of displaying a heart on a photo or comment already sent they send "more_corn liked the photo"). What else can/should do you recommend they do?
And messages sent over SMS can't be encrypted, unlike ones sent over imessage so they mark them differently -- great!
Now they are adding support for the RCS extension to SMS so that RCS users can get higher resolution photos. And somehow they are degrading the experience?
Maybe you should be mad at FB messenger, Whatsapp, Signal etc that don't even communicate with SMS users at all.
LOL as if Google isn’t doing the same? I sure see a lot of Google shit on an Android phone. Some you have to pay for! Some that work better on Android than Apple! Google as forced search engine! Preposterous! Insulting! You’ve inspired me to contact my attorney general and the FTC to look into these illegal and anticompetitive practices.
The very low quality photos for one android in your group chat is very annoying. Recommended to email them. Encryption will also be worse for RCS vs iPhone to iPhone.
transport encryption is literally the bare minimum for anything on the network these days (to the extent that iOS endeavors straight up blocks all the standard unencrypted protocol ports by default).
But also transport encryption is not relevant in any conversation about messaging security. In the context of messaging for the last decade, the messages are either private or they are not, and TLS (or whatever transport level encryption you use) does not give you a private channel.
Yep, and I agree about keeping high standards, but replacing the nonexistent security of SMS with something that can't be easily stingrayed or passively collected by pervasive surveillance would still be progress. This combined with the potential path forward to the Android style is still something, more than I would have expected from Apple.
Android has RCS which is just as insecure as SMS (encrypted chats aren't RCS, they're binary blobs using RCS as a transport mechanism - saying they're RCS is like saying iMessage is TLS because that's its transport mechanism)
