June Wan/ZDNET Personally, I don’t get it. I communicate with my friends who use iPhones all the time with my Android devices and never have a problem. But then, I don’t tend to depend on every feature known to messaging. But, on a certain level, I do understand it. When I’m communicating with other friends … Read more
Earlier this year Gill had become intrigued by how Apple’s Push Notification service (APNs) works, and how these bidirectional notifications might offer some clues into breaking open Messages. First, Gill had to better understand how the Apple ID worked, so he reverse engineered how Apple Music operated on a Windows computer. He noted the traffic … Read more
Google’s bet on RCS is paying off, or at least that’s what it wants us to think. After a few minor wins, including Apple quietly confirming RCS support in the next iPhone and officially surpassing 1 billion monthly active users, Google is celebrating its successes by announcing new features for Messages users on Android. “Even … Read more
Having predominantly used Android phones, I am far too familiar with the stigma of being a “green bubble.” Whenever I message someone with an iPhone, my texts show up in iMessage, the default messaging platform in iOS, but the app switches my messages from the secure but Apple-only iMessage protocol to the dated SMS/MMS protocol. … Read more
Photo: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Apple will dispute the European Union’s latest crackdown on Big Tech by appealing the decision to regulate iMessage and the App Store as anticompetitive services, according to Bloomberg. The M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for Halloween Apple is one of six companies targeted by European regulators under the Digital Markets … Read more
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Once again, Google is pressuring Apple to open up iMessage — and this time, it’s doing so by way of a letter to European regulators. Joined by CEOs from major European telecommunications companies, an unnamed Google senior vice president signed a letter saying that Apple’s iMessage should be regulated as … Read more
Apple Stickers. Source: Apple Apple recently released iOS 17, the latest big update that’s available for anyone with an iPhone from 2018 or later. One of the features I’ve been using most is the new customizable sticker emoji. You can, for example, make a sticker from any photo of your dog or child and then … Read more
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Microsoft and Apple are reportedly pushing to maintain Bing and iMessage, respectively, off an inventory of “gatekeepers” topic to new European laws. Monetary Occasions stories that each corporations are privately (and individually) arguing that their providers aren’t giant or highly effective sufficient to justify incomes the restrictions of the Digital Markets Act, a rule designed … Read more
Within the early days of macOS Mojave in 2018, Apple hadn’t provided customers a strategy to mechanically change to darkish and lightweight mode at completely different occasions of the day. As ordinary, there have been third-party builders keen to select up the slack. One of many extra well-regarded night time mode apps to repair this … Read more
Via the years there have been loads of apps promising a one-stop store for all of your messages, and the most recent of those is Beeper: It collects your entire conversations from WhatsApp, Fb Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Google Chat, Twitter (or X), and, sure, even iMessage. Video Chat – From Sci-Fi to Sci-Truth The concept … Read more