At least with Apple's message indication you know you're getting encryption and thus privacy from carriers. Would it be less problematic if Apple simply mentioned "warning: this is unencrypted SMS"?
Maybe what Nike is doing is just as bad...
Actually, from an environmental standpoint I would be okay with doing that for food items/detergent/etc. Mandate the same form factor and just wash them out and reuse. But for clothing items it hardly makes sense, as a big part of you buying that is exactly the different look.
[0]: https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
No, no it isn't.
The degree that matters is of course debatable, but it is one of their talking points.
Presumably they run security tests on 3rd party Mac browsers, it’s a major security concern.
Oh, wait. Google prevented Microsoft from creating a Youtube app for Windows Phone.
Do you think Google (or any organization) is capable of shame? I could extend your question to "How could Microsoft whine about Google shutting down its Youtube API access, while Microsoft was shaking down Android OEMs with secret patents and forciing them to make Windows phones as part of the (secret) settlement?" or "How can Apple ramp up its ad products when it rails against Google/Facebook ads?". The answer to all of those questions is self-interest.
People don't seem to agree with you. Google screwing up it's own messaging strategy for a decade and then whining about the consequences of their own decisions shows a lot of nerve.
> Google has been unable to field a stable, competitive messaging platform for years and has thoroughly lost the messaging war to products with a long-term strategy. At least some divisions inside the company are waking up to how damaging this is to Google as a company, and now Google's latest strategy is to... beg its competition for mercy? Google—which has launched 13 different messaging apps since iMessage launched in 2011—now says, "It's time for Apple to fix texting."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
Adding RCS compatibility would negatively impact precisely zero iPhone users, and would positively impact literally everyone (including iPhone users!).
RCS may have its warts, but I do not see Apple proposing a better standard? Everyone agrees SMS/MMS is about as bad as it can be... and there's already a lot of industry buy-in outside of Apple for supporting RCS.
Get with the program Apple...
RCS is supported by most carriers, and over 500 device manufacturers. But not Apple.
This is what people in the hate-Apple echo chamber like to chant, but it's wrong.
When Apple started doing it, there was no network effect.
The color choice was made years before everyone started freaking out about green and blue bubbles.
It was done to show that a message went over SMS, and not iMessage at a time when many Americans paid for each SMS sent, but iMessages were data, and thus included in data plans.
Blue=free
Green=10¢
Apple could fix this if they wanted to, but they don't want to. They know it sells phones. It is intentional.
It was to mark the "plebs" so the "plebs" would be blamed for any issues rather than Apple.
Phone plans used to come with a limited number of SMS messages per month (or even none), and the rates per SMS if you went over the limit were beyond extortionate.
>Since BlackBerry messages are sent as data, users do not incur individual charges for each message as they would through regular SMS texting. While phone companies have introduced bulk texting plans, many options still include caps on the number of individual SMS messages that can be sent. BBM has no such limit.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/why-is-bbm-so-suc...
But wasn't cellular data priced similarly extortionately back then?
Before iPhone or Android existed, Blackberry was very popular with teens because you got unlimited messaging on Blackberry Messenger included with the data plan you got with a Blackberry.
Eventually there were cell phone plans where you could add unlimited SMS for an additional fee regardless of what phone you used.
By the time the iPhone rolled around, all the American iPhone plans included unlimited SMS messages without an additional fee.
I guess it depends on your terms. I had--I think--a 2GB per month data plan (which was actually fairly reasonable for mobile at the time) and later went to "unlimited" but I was still paying something like 10 cents per text for a time. I didn't text a lot so I just paid a la carte until I changed plans.
Communications charges have changed a lot over time. I remember when long distance calls were something like $1/minute.
I can remember Verizon being sued because they forced handset manufacturers to disable Bluetooth for file transfers, because Verizon used to charge you money every time you transferred photos to or from your phone.
iMessage was released 11 years ago now. Can’t blame Apple for what not considering what the toddlers of the time would eventually do with the technology.
Apple hasn’t done much of anything to say android texts are bad… they’ve just said they’re not iPhone texts (and iPhone—>iPhone has better texting). Everyone else came along and said android is for poor people, and used those green bubbles as a signal to act on — just the same as using the logo to judge your shoes.
Key exchange happens through apple. App is proprietary and as far as I know the apple devices upload to the apple cloud in a way that makes apple able to read the messages by default.