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The fee and requiring account signup are a dealbreaker. Hopefully someone will create a FLOSS alternative.
by b8 3y ago
The fee and requiring account signup are a dealbreaker. Hopefully someone will create a FLOSS alternative.
- jmprspret 3y agoAirMessage is open source (and quite old, unsure if its maintained). It requires a Mac computer to run some kind of forwarding software however.
- tamu_nerd 3y agoBlueBubbles is the new hotness I believe.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoWhy are people so godawful cheap that they demand so much labor from others for free? I'd gladly pay for this, it's hella cheaper than me having to switch from Android to iPhone.
- colinsane 3y agothere are FLOSS alternatives: jabber/XMPP (or arguably Matrix, etc) okay, i sound snarky: but how is this aligned at all with FLOSS projects/communities/ideals? how/why would a FOSS project tie itself to a network run by a company that’s going to constantly be trying to kill their implementation? both the users and the devs would be constantly fed up with the breakages: you solve that either with open protocols or by paying somebody to do the dirty work of defending against Apple.