It’s very right. All messaging platforms should be open or interoperable.
Imagine if from Hotmail you could only email others on Hotmail. Or the same with Gmail. Or not being able to SMS anyone on at&t from any other telco. There’s no good reason to limit it like that.
Also consider that they were charging for the service. The only part of the deal I wasn’t keen on. 1 because again, messaging should be open and interoperable. 2 they were basically charging a recurring fee for access to Apple’s service, not specifically theirs in this instance. Which seems bad on Beeper, until you realize that Apple is basically refusing to make money from their service. And they’re not doing it out of principle, ideology, or good will. They’re doing it because they don’t want to compete. Not with regards to iMessage, or anything else.
The argument stands just fine. There’s a big difference between saying something and doing something. Just as there’s a big difference between doing something and doing something well. iMessage can absolutely do SMS messages. It’s one of the worst SMS clients in general. Which is part of the problem.
I expect their RCS implementation to be degraded 2nd class citizen to iMessage based on Apple’s history. Anything else is a fools bet. I hope to be surprised, however I don’t expect it.
Apple can make good hardware and software. The big issue is how they implement it to anti-competitive effect. Of the big 3, all of whom need to be broken up badly. Apple isn’t even the worst. Just close.
Exploit is a strange choice of words for using a system as it was designed. Definitely not an unbiased choice. It was no threat to the non existent security. You can’t threaten what isn’t there. There was no buffer overflow, malformed packets, or any “exploit”. They sent credentials, the server accepted the message and relayed it as designed. Something which should have always been possible, but Apple artificially restricts.
Warren and her group while tech illiterate, are more spot on than you in this case at least. Though you’re either just repeating things uninformed, or being disingenuous. If I leave my door standing wide open I cannot say someone exploited the lock when they walked in.
It’s very right. All messaging platforms should be open or interoperable.
Imagine if from Hotmail you could only email others on Hotmail. Or the same with Gmail. Or not being able to SMS anyone on at&t from any other telco. There’s no good reason to limit it like that.
Also consider that they were charging for the service. The only part of the deal I wasn’t keen on. 1 because again, messaging should be open and interoperable. 2 they were basically charging a recurring fee for access to Apple’s service, not specifically theirs in this instance. Which seems bad on Beeper, until you realize that Apple is basically refusing to make money from their service. And they’re not doing it out of principle, ideology, or good will. They’re doing it because they don’t want to compete. Not with regards to iMessage, or anything else.
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The argument stands just fine. There’s a big difference between saying something and doing something. Just as there’s a big difference between doing something and doing something well. iMessage can absolutely do SMS messages. It’s one of the worst SMS clients in general. Which is part of the problem.
I expect their RCS implementation to be degraded 2nd class citizen to iMessage based on Apple’s history. Anything else is a fools bet. I hope to be surprised, however I don’t expect it.
Apple can make good hardware and software. The big issue is how they implement it to anti-competitive effect. Of the big 3, all of whom need to be broken up badly. Apple isn’t even the worst. Just close.
Exploit is a strange choice of words for using a system as it was designed. Definitely not an unbiased choice. It was no threat to the non existent security. You can’t threaten what isn’t there. There was no buffer overflow, malformed packets, or any “exploit”. They sent credentials, the server accepted the message and relayed it as designed. Something which should have always been possible, but Apple artificially restricts.
Warren and her group while tech illiterate, are more spot on than you in this case at least. Though you’re either just repeating things uninformed, or being disingenuous. If I leave my door standing wide open I cannot say someone exploited the lock when they walked in.
Maybe we wouldn’t have the spam ridden hellscape that is modern email if it worked more like current messaging platforms