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I do this because my family is locked in to iMessage and FaceTime, and to test programs that I write to ensure they work on Macs.

• swiley 6y ago
  Is there really no way to reverse engineer the iMessage protocol? Or is it just difficult and no one is motivated. I'm in a similar situation where my family and some of my friends only want to talk over iMessage. Last time my iphone wasn't available for a while I had to spend a couple hours pirating OSX and fiddling with a bunch of hackintosh tools just to talk to the girl I was dating at the time.
  • jmnicolas 6y ago
    > just to talk to the girl I was dating at the time You mean she wouldn't talk to you if it wasn't on iMessage? That's not love (or friendship for that matter). I would use smoke signals, learn sign language, use Morse or whatever is necessary to communicate with my love.
    • swiley 6y ago
      It's not that she would have refused, we just got so used to using imessage that we didn't have a working backup (we had sent emails but that's not always reliable.) We lived hours apart and I needed the address of the place we planned on meeting the next day (she had already sent it, but over imessage.)