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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
(www.androidcentral.com)
Goodbye, privacy
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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This could easily be blocked by Apple
Are these a Matrix/Beeper bridge?
Who fucking cares about the color of a text message? Stop catering to childish trends. My god what the ever loving fuck is wrong with people?!
You never had to exchange pictures or video between iPhone and android over messages then.
The color is only a small part of it. Blue bubble means they can exchange media with you without a huge quality sacrifice.
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Whatever, Matrix/XMPP work with carrier-independent protocols.
This sounds like The Onion, ridiculous.
Nice one, not sure why it's geo restricted to the US, Canada, and Europe though, unless that's a limitation of the bridge software they're using. Could be a pretty neat selling point for a small subset of users, but I don't think it'll make people reconsider which Android they choose to upgrade to.
Also nice to see e2ee RCS implemented outside of Samsung and Google's apps.
For anyone looking at alternatives, there's AirMessage (if you have a mac, real or virtualized), and Beeper (not free, in any sense of the word, but supports even more messengers)
Its not really a problem being restricted to the US and Canada since they are the only countries having that 'problem'. No one uses iMessage outside of the US.