U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s not a fan of “green texts on iPhones” and that it’s “time to break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly,” but statistics show the tech giant doesn’t have exclusive c…
iMessage protocol has been fully implemented on Android devices before. The software is not obfuscated. It’s been thoroughly analyzed by competitors. Apple just doesn’t license it out. It’s proprietary IP.
This is just straight wrong. iMessage on android has worked by connecting to a remote Mac, which then connects to imessage. The protocol is locked to their hardware.
And, even if there was a true open source reimplimplementation of iMessage, that would say nothing about the security of Apple’s proprietary implementation of the iMessage end to end encryption.
iMessage protocol has been fully implemented on Android devices before. The software is not obfuscated. It’s been thoroughly analyzed by competitors. Apple just doesn’t license it out. It’s proprietary IP.
This is just straight wrong. iMessage on android has worked by connecting to a remote Mac, which then connects to imessage. The protocol is locked to their hardware.
And, even if there was a true open source reimplimplementation of iMessage, that would say nothing about the security of Apple’s proprietary implementation of the iMessage end to end encryption.
This is like if a neural net had been fed Apple ads and Apple fans’ weird ideas on computing.
Try to understand that imitating the way Apple PR talks doesn’t sound geeky, it sounds awfully ignorant.