#pypush now has a branch where it can register a phone number to your #Apple#iMessage account via a helper #Android app.
This means that you can send iMessages from your phone number (better than email for some reason) with #Beeper or #BlueBubbles, without owning an iPhone.
@odddev That's nice to have, though I'm more inclined to an alternative approach — transcription that is available for all voice messages. If a voice is more convenient than text for a person at a time, let them use it. But if a text is more suitable for me at a time, I'd want to turn the voice into a text message. I believe this is the best for both the sending and receiving parties. I like that #apple brings this approach to #imessage in #IOS17 🙏
Several banks and Wall Street firms have just been fined millions of dollars for hiding messages in a variety of different messaging apps, including Apple's own iMessage.
Service-Toot: Die Messenger-Matrix wurde aktualisiert. Die Empfehlung für Threema wurde angepasst, nachdem nun ein formaler Sicherheitsaudit für das Krypto-Protokoll vorliegt.
#Apple threatens to remove #FaceTime and #iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security under a proposed security bill amendment, dubbed a “snooper's charter”
We go hands-on with all the new features and changes coming to the Messages app as part of iOS 17, including a redesign, Check In, Live Stickers, and more.
I've composed an email to my dad and siblings proposing that we start using #Signal for group messages and video calls. I have wanted to switch to an #Android phone for a while now, but #iMessage and #FaceTime are some of the last big hurdles to me ditching #iPhone for good. I haven't sent the email yet...I don't know why I'm so worried about it. I guess I just hate to be "that guy" who doesn't want to do what everyone else is doing and cause them inconvenience.
I suspect that the eventual cross-platform solution to the incompatibility between #iMessage and #RCS in the #USA will just be everyone downloading an app like #Telegram (which is a honeypot) or #Signal, much how everyone uses #Whatsapp internationally.
Which I am sure that neither #Apple nor #Google wants.
The new stickers/Tapback functionality is interesting, but for my money the biggest improvement in Messages is the demotion of voice messages.
I have been accidentally triggering voice message recording for years, and have never deliberately sent one. The UI for this feature was terminally broken.
I do worry about the accessibility implications (there are surely people who rely on this and their lives just got harder), but this will be a quality of life improvement for me.
“It’s easier, and more comfortable, for #Google to argue that it’s all about the #GreenBubbles. The hard truth is that #iPhones and #iOS are simply better overall.”
Encrypted iMessage chats lead to record-breaking SEC fines for Wells Fargo, Wall Street (appleinsider.com)
Several banks and Wall Street firms have just been fined millions of dollars for hiding messages in a variety of different messaging apps, including Apple's own iMessage.
Apple warning it could shut FaceTime, iMessage in UK over gov't surveillance policy adds to growing tech industry discontent | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The list of mainstream Internet services that could shut down in the UK over security risks attached to government policymaking just got longer...
Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can’t Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols (daringfireball.net)
Link to: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081
Hands on with all the new Messages features in iOS 17 (appleinsider.com)
We go hands-on with all the new features and changes coming to the Messages app as part of iOS 17, including a redesign, Check In, Live Stickers, and more.
Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning. (www.bbc.com)
Signal Messenger, iMessage, and others could be forced to scan for child abuse images under the Online Safety Bill.