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Why don’t you like Apple? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by Betawhat@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interest in RCS is recent - newer than iMessage, which launched in 2011. RCS with Google's proprietary extensions is just another proprietary messaging app, and I am not particularly excited about it.

even so far as “patch” a fix that was created to make it possible for their customers to communicate securely with Android users.

There's no shortage of options for doing that. What Apple wants is tight control over all of its walled gardens, which should be no surprise given the company's history. They're very good at making it appear as if decisions made to increase their profits are aligned with the interests of users. It's probably even true that someone would have exploited the technique Beeper Mini was using to send spam if Apple hadn't closed it.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

RCS with Google's proprietary extensions

I don't know that that's true. But regardless, I agree and wish they decided on a more open protocol, but that is just not the corporate way. Anything is better than SMS/MMS.

There's no shortage of options for doing that.

Sure. Ask yourself why Apple users don't use them? The answer is SMS fallback. A feature which you can use with any app on Android and literally only with iMessage on iOS.

It's probably even true that someone would have exploited the technique Beeper Mini was using to send spam if Apple hadn't closed it.

Well Apple doesn't seem to give a single fuck about SMS spam, so I'm not sure what your point is. Google at least incorporates spam filtering.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

SMS fallback. A feature which you can use with any app on Android

SMS fallback is not a common feature of internet-based messaging apps on Android. Signal used to do it, but does not now. I don't think WhatsApp or Telegram ever did.