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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 69 points 8 months ago (22 children)

SMS is hilariously insecure, and messaging is a critical piece of infrastructure. I’m shocked that the government has taken so long forcing Apple to play nicely with other platforms, considering international data security.

[–] Shouted@programming.dev -5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Nothing is stopping people from downloading whatever chat app they want to use. EU has done that.

[–] nymwit@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Something is stopping another messaging app to have sms fallback and be the default messaging app on iOS. It's iOS.

[–] Shouted@programming.dev -4 points 8 months ago

But does it work? Can you, as an Android user, send text messages to and from people with iPhones?

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