> If we ignore 'and requires iPhone for the other party to receive anything other than text' then yes. They can also receive images! SMS does support sending t

> If we ignore 'and requires iPhone for the other party to receive anything other than text' then yes. They can also receive images! SMS does support sending those, after all. > Just progressively degrade to personal insults, why are you even bothering? Pointing out argumentative flaws isn't really a personal insult. I'm still talking to you because your communication style reminds me of my mother-in-law who recently passed away, so it's a whole nostalgia thing really. :D > when it's okay for Apple to do something yet not okay for not-Apple to do the same. Yeah, but it was a weird swerve into an unrelated issue, given that nobody in the thread had been engaging in that doublethink. I certainly wasn't -- my whole position here has been that so long as there's a fallback it's fine for both Apple and Google to be having this progressive-enhancement setup, after all. > Yes, but if you don't use Signal for 'activist communities' then what? You don't do things? Or you just use iMessage for participating in those activities? I'd imagine that if you're such a person you'd either stick to in-person communications, be suitably vague in less-secure communications, or use one of the various secure messaging services out there which don't require a phone number. Also, "Signal requiring a phone number means I'm identifiable on it, so I might as well use iMessage anyway since it's convenient and not any less secure overall" is a coherent stance for someone to take, depending on how they weight their risks.