AirMessage leverages the power of your Mac computer in order to route messages to and from Apple's iMessage servers. The server is to be installed on a computer at home, and will pass messages to and from your smartphone to allow the usage of iMessage and other installed services.
Plus, you can always run a Hackintosh or use macOS in a VM, although that can be a lot of work depending on your computer hardware.
I'm not very familiar with the workings of iMessage but why can't an Android device copy the protocol and make the relevant API calls directly?
It presumably also integrates into the OS at a deep level: the system that pushes messages to the computer is not iMessage specific, it’s OS-level. So you’d need to reverse engineer that, too.
Is that possible ?
I'd like to be able to send/receive "imessages" (and prompt typing ellipses, etc.) from a twilio number. It's low priority, but an interesting problem ...
Is imessage an open spec somewhere wherein you could use API credentials and interface with it, arbitrarily ?
It's the same gripe I have with iOS keyboards, unless something has changed there. The feel and layout of every third party keyboard is the same as the default keyboard. During my short period with an iPhone I gave Gboard for iOS a try, tweaking it as much as I could to get a similar experience to what I was used to on Android. In the end it still felt like the system keyboard more than anything.
And the "long-press top row for numbers" option wasn't available so had to switch back and forth between keyboard and "numpad" when typing something like passwords or strings with a lot of numbers.
And the default SMS app being fine? Such an annoyance every time I had to use it. Don't remember specifics (as I was just trying to get away from it ASAP) but there was at least some kind of cringy emoji bar always visible.
Horrible experience all in all and I'm so glad to be back on Android.
For a lot of people, it comes down to being to run uBlock Origin/cosmetic and dynamic ad and content blocking (e.g. not a simple blacklist) and running other extensions and customizations.
It lets any third party messaging system become a viable SMS replacement (like Hangouts and Signal does on Android), by making it seamless to send all messages from one app.
Like iMessage and only iMessage does seamlessly on iOS, because Apple has given it a monopoly on handling SMSes.
It’s anti-competitive as fuck.
Choosing Signal over iMessage. Signal can serve as your primary messaging app, prioritizing the Signal protocol but falling back to SMS as necessary per contact.
Except that it can’t, because iOS won’t route SMS to it.
What do you mean by "have better support for cross-OS applications"?
What other file functionality do you need on a mobile phone?
I want spywares/adwares to be allowed without any restriction so I can install a adblock pro to block them.
If you pick up a used iPhone X, it is impossible for Apple to prevent you from sideloading whatever you like on the device.
Nope. The SOC on the iPhone X has an unpatchable Boot ROM flaw.
There is nothing Apple can do to prevent you from sideloading anything you like. This will work with any future version of the OS.
However, those things aren't an issue for iDevices.
> I dislike iOS because of the locked-down nature
If your overall issue is wanting the ability to sideload anything you like on an iDevice, there is a simple solution.
I'm still not sure why I'd go through all the hassle of iOS when I can clearly do the same in a superior fashion with even non-rooted Android. Is it just that you like iOS more than Android? It seems by your comment history that you're only commenting on Apple-specific threads and topics.
Not really? iPhone X still blows flagship Android devices out of the water.
You'll have a better device that will get more years of support.
Tbh, after a year of slowly fiddling with my setup, it is quite inconvenient. It’s so close to being amazing, but there are enough small things that make it annoying.