> unless regulators are interested in forbidding hardware checks entirely I don’t see what they would do to intervene here
Simple, they tell apple: Open up.
They don't have to care about any of the technical details. That's politics for you.
Simple, they tell apple: Open up.
They don't have to care about any of the technical details. That's politics for you.
The iMessage service.
> If they write a rule that doesn’t specify technical details, it seems like the already existing functionality to send and receive SMS messages from the iMessage app would be sufficient.
The app is Messages.
And practically speaking, it’s a very small inconvenience to have to switch app when chatting to some friends. It even has some benefits, each of the apps will have fewer conversations to keep track of.