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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    Of course Apple doesn’t want others to access the iMessage protocol. It’s part of their walled garden. They can claim it’s a secure protocol because they have full control over it. An application like Beeper gaining access undermines this.

    Beeper doesn’t access some sort of global repository of messages, but we’ve no idea what Beeper does with the conversations that are had via their clients. With iMessages you trust Apple, feel about that how you will, with Beeper you trust whoever is in charge of that.

    Beeper is never going to last anyway. If they manage to regain access to iMessages, Apple will just update the protocol to reject them again. With Apple implementing RCS there’s not really any point in applying legal pressure on Apple to open up their platform either.

    • quo@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      They can claim it’s a secure protocol because they have full control over it. An application like Beeper gaining access undermines this.

      You’re not explaining how it makes it more secure, you’re simply restating the claim that it does.

      Neither Apple, nor anyone here, can give one precise example of how this would make anything more secure.

      we’ve no idea what Beeper does with the conversations that are had via their clients.

      Same for any iMessage user. I could share a secret with another iPhone user, and they could immediately screenshot it and share it.

      Apple could release their own iMessage client for Android if this were really about trusting beeper, but it’s not. It’s about using peer pressure with blue bubbles to sell more iPhones.

      • LilPappyWigwam@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just hopping on to concur:

        “Apple could release their own iMessage client for Android if this were really about trusting beeper, but it’s not. It’s about using peer pressure with blue bubbles to sell more iPhones.”

        It’s just that simple (and offensive).

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      They can claim it’s a secure protocol because they have full control over it. An application like Beeper gaining access undermines this.

      Claiming their protocol is “security by obscurity” would not be the win for them you think it is.