rexsceleratorum

payeco said:

rexsceleratorum said:

Apple could've made an app for Android years ago and made chats secure for iPhone users by not sending anything over SMS. But surprise surprise, they don't actually care about users' privacy more than they care about their bottom line by locking in American teenagers who don't want to be outcasts. The latter being a problem which does not exist outside of the US, because everyone uses Whatsapp or similar instead of texting. 

I’ll never understand this mindset. Why is it Apple’s responsibility to make messaging better on someone else’s platform? You can dance around it all you want but that is what you’re saying. 

I am telling you how Apple could have made messaging better on Apple's platform. By not having to send messages over unsecured SMS to Android users. Remember that the topic is end-to-end encryption of iMessage chats, which is currently not true with the SMS fallback, Sunbird or not.

Interoperability is a feature that benefits Apple users as much as anyone, so I interpret hostility to it as cult mentality. 

Messaging is not worse on Android, and no one is pining for iMessage outside of the US, the latter being where Apple is a party to bullying teenagers into buying iPhones.