All messages are end to end encrypted. Also you don’t need an Apple account and it connects directly to Apple servers.

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    Their “how it works” blog article is worth a read - they’re using a blackbox reverse engineering of the protocol and re-implementing it natively in the app, so there are no man-in-the-middle servers. Impressive software engineering for sure.

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    I’m not American and I don’t see how having iMessage on Android is worth the $2 monthly.

    In my whole life I never knew a single person that was reachable only on iMessage or that was so stubborn to ignore messages on any other platform

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    A lot of work, data scrapping and security issue just for a pin ?

    Seriously ?

    What the point, except to simulate the possession of an iPhone to someone who should be a stranger for you or at least physically far from you ?

    I clearly don’t get it.

    Scam interest after a sim swapping attacks ? The goal, need to know it !!

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      iMessage is pretty great to use honestly. Supports encryption, Tapbacks, read receipts, sharing any file type (not just pictures and video). RCS isn’t implemented in iOS yet and on launch won’t support encryption (supposedly Google is working to add it to the RCS standard, not just Google’s fork, now that Apple announced future support for the standard).