I’ve been eyeing the Pinephone for quite some time now. Do you use yours as a daily driver? Or have you paired it with an a more-mainstream iPhone/Android?
I’m currently using an iPhone as my social circle uses primarily uses iMessage and I’ve found it hard to migrate. As a secondary device for debugging, testing, and a “burpsuite playground” I’m using an extremely cheap Nokia I picked up a few years ago.
I think a Pinephone would be cool to replace the Android I have.
Apple loves to lock you into their ecosystem (need an iPhone to use Apple Watch, etc), but iMessage is incredibly effective and often overlooked. If you use it heavily and want to move away from Apple, your options are to simply not take part in those conversations, or to convince everyone else to switch to something else. It sucks.
I know many people with iPhones but nobody ever tried to invite me to an iMessage group chat. Nobody even tried to message me with it directly, because it would have switched over to SMS and I've literally never had an SMS from a person. Just automated notifications and spam.
Not that we're much better off here because we're still stuck with proprietary stuff like WhatsApp but at least it's not locked to one platform.
Now that this has some attention, what can people like me and other readers do to help you get this over the finish line?
(thank you!)
Long story short, I have been working which the Chatty developer to integrate MMS support into his program:
https://source.puri.sm/kop316/chatty/-/tree/wip/sadiq/mm-acc...
The primary program for MMS support is here:
https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd/
I have a few TODOs on that (which I haven't had tine for recently, but I should be able to get back to it this week). There's a few TODOs in there, so maybe work on them? (But then again, it's more a function of working with the chatty Dev than anything else).
Help testing and refining the code is also welcome too!
There is also a Matrix room you are welcome to join if you want to help, or to see how things are:
I haven’t tried mine nowadays, and there is always great progress when I check back, but I simply can’t imagine using it as a daily driver.