Clickbait/false title. You can do exactly this on any Android/Windows device with the Beeper app, along with your other accounts (Instagram, FB, etc.) Last I checked there’s a wait-list but it doesn’t take too long to get through it.
What would this be using? Something like matrix or beeper? I’m sure you could replicate this at home fairly easily.
fairly easily
Software engineers always bandy this phrase around and then take 53 hours of coding to reach a proof of concept
wtf is nothing
i really doubt it
I have an Iphone and dont care about Imessage at all, I dont get it why in America is so popular
It’s because it’s native, video and photo quality is apparently better, it syncs across devices and most young people in America have iPhones.
“OFFICIAL” … THIS AS “UNOFFICIAL” AS A IMESSAGE APP CAN BE, UNLESS THEIRS 1 THAT HAS A RANDOM GUY ON THE OTHER END TYPING IT INTO A REMOTE MACBOOK HIMSELF
People still use SMS nowadays? In Singapore, most people only use SMS for OTP and some notifications. We have move on to WhatsApp, Wechat and Telegram long time ago.
A Singaporean who has no clue what iMessage is…interesting…
They are just skinning an app called sunbird. I have it as an alpha user. It works but can be glitch.
Official? You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
It is NOT official. Or safe.
I got to see the iMessage revolution first hand. I was in mobile sales for 7 years and the first year I joined was when the iPhone 4s launched. I sold iPhones from the 4S all the way up to the iPhone X. I was working for Sprint, and they were the first ones to start the “iPhone forever” program with the iPhone 6, people were switching their entire families over from Android to iPhone because the kids wanted the iPhones and yearly upgrades. Most parents would say they wouldn’t take advantage of the annual upgrade themselves, but they would always be back in a year and would typically get new phones for everybody at the same time.
Then I would start seeing people come in every year and I would notice more people wanting to trade their Androids in early to get an iPhone because their kids told them to.
One or more kids would switch to an iPhone, then parents would usually switch as well so they could tell when their kids were reading their messages. I remember that being a big thing for quite a few parents we’re really into when they first released that feature in an update.
It was the yearly iPhone upgrade that cemented most people with apples ecosystem of products. The kids eventually convince the parents because not only was Apple’s product easier to use for most people and was consistent when Android phones were still somewhat complicated and new for first or second generation smartphone users.
It only took like 2 years before people were getting everything Apple. Replacing their computers and their tablets with iOS and Mac devices. Once people committed for a year or two they typically stayed and don’t want to switch back.
We had a butt ton of returns within the 14-day exchange window because people would be Apple people and want to try an Android with maybe three out of ten people actually switching OS. And five to six people switching from Android to iOS and staying.
TLDR, I sold phones for years and when Sprint started doing annual upgrades with iPhones, kids would get their parents to switch over everybody wanted the annual upgrade, parents really liked the delivered and read function in iOS and in about 2 years everybody had picked an operating system and stuck with it
I don’t trust this one bit. Having an apple id signed in somewhere else has a number of security issues. You would have to trust the company, trust their security, trust whoever buys them if they go under, trust the server admins, and trust Apple legal don’t shut it down and perma ban anyone who did this. At the very least this will be a temporary loophole apple will be sure to kill especially if others try it like Google and Samsung.
Why this obsession with iMessage? Why not Signal/Whatsapp/Telegram?
Basically no one in North America, or at least the US, uses those. Every phone comes with SMS text built into it; there’s basically no issue going between carriers, and numbers are easy. WhatsApp is very useful for people who might be messaging across country lines, or to a phone that’s not from the same country. That’s not an issue here, so no one bothers.
why would i want a third party app when imessage works perfectly fine
Because not everyone have an iphone
And no one in the US uses a third party app including android users and thus no way to msg ppl you know on these third party apps.
Fuck it I’m buying nothing now
This is the same way beeper does it