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jimh2 said:

This will be shut down as the software is trespassing on Apple servers. No different than using (stealing) electricity from the neighbor without permission. Masquerading as blue is fraudulent on some level as blue tells users who they are messaging.

You cannot use someone else’s assets without their permission and there are no exceptions to this. 

Skeptical said:

Are people so vapid that a green or blue bubble is a life altering event in their existence? God, having first world problems must be great. 

Anilu_777 said:

So - a random third party is able to access Apple servers? You better believe Apple will find a way to block it. That’s a security problem. 

Dead_Pool said:

Apple, please kill this Frankenstein monster ASAP

tommytallboy said:

I would like to share that from my experience, most people outside the US don’t really use iMessage or SMS for group chats. 

Almost everyone I know (including seniors in their late 70s), uses different chat apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, WeChat, etc.

These chat platforms give unlimited messages, with text, voice, videos, media of all types. I’m hard pressed to understand all the stress around green bubble or blue bubble. Moreover SMS has a limited free messages depending on mobile plan. iMessage is close to other unlimited messages chat platforms. 

Almost no one I know uses SMS / iMessage except banks and other official organisations for 2FA. Increasingly, I have seen organisations moving to sending messages via WhatsApp and other Chat platforms - moving away from SMS / iMessage type of issues and discussions. 

This seems like a good solution for Android users to iPhone chat groups but beyond that use-case, it would be a non-starter outside of the US. Truly no one I know outside the US uses iMessage actively.