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> It's strange Apple doesn't sell an iMessage Android app Apple doesn’t sell apps they sell hardware and services. There’s no incentive for them to provide a
by mr_toad 3y ago
> It's strange Apple doesn't sell an iMessage Android app
Apple doesn’t sell apps they sell hardware and services. There’s no incentive for them to provide a free iMessage app for android, and I doubt many people would pay for one.
- gkbrk 3y ago> I doubt many people would pay for one. Enough people paid for one. Enough to make Apple scared and use engineer time to ban/block people anyway.
- misnome 3y agoDo we know that and that it wasn’t e.g. a massive influx of messages coming from a single hardware ID triggering an anti-spam system.
- gkbrk 3y agoSince we're not Apple, we don't know. But if we take their word [0] for it. > We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage. > We will continue to make updates in the future to protect our users. [0]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-minis-access-after-launch-of-service-that-brought-imessage-to-android/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-mini...