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Is spam a good reason for Apple to keep their iMessage garden exclusive? SMS is also widely used for spam.
by Banditoz 3y ago
Is spam a good reason for Apple to keep their iMessage garden exclusive? SMS is also widely used for spam.
- StressedDev 3y ago[flagged]
- freedomben 3y agoBeeper doesn't give you iMessage. It just makes you appear as a "blue bubble" to people who are on iMessage.
- robertoandred 3y agoA blue bubble = iMessage. If it's green, you're not on iMessage.
- MBCook 3y agoThat’s what blue bubble means. You’re talking through the iMessage service.
- nickpeterson 3y agoSo basically it helps make it harder to sort out if something is spam.. All my SMS spam is green bubbles.
- Jtsummers 3y ago> It just makes you appear as a "blue bubble" to people who are on iMessage. Received messages on iPhones show up as neither blue nor green. They always have a gray background. The blue and green bubbles are the colors of the messages sent by the iPhone users on their own phones. Recipients, on other iPhones, will see messages with a gray background regardless of whether it was sent with iMessage or SMS/MMS.
- MBCook 3y agoYes. It exists but (for me) is non-existent. I know others do get it. I’ve never thought about it but that would be a huge black mark and could end up pushing a lot of people to WhatsApp/FaceBook Messenger/whatever.
- mh8h 3y agoI am not in the position to judge that. But reducing spam on iMessage is beneficial for Apple customers, and as a customer, I want Apple to be able to do that.
- lawgimenez 3y agoI’m in Asia, my phone number has been with me for almost a decade. I haven’t received spam in a blue bubble, only on SMS (green). Just want to give you a perspective in the other part of the world. This are not just spam but most are sms phishing with links. We have poor, inadequate cyber laws, so we are glad Apple is doing its part sealing this off.
- StressedDev 3y agoYes - As an iPhone users, I am not really interested in getting more SPAM.