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Google Might Make Your iPhone Friend’s iMessage Reactions Less Annoying

Kellen November 19, 2021 49

The timing of this bit of news couldn't be more perfect. A day ago, DL's very own Tim was on Twitter doing that complaining thing about iPhone owners responding to text messages of his with those awful reactions that show up on Android as these really annoying...

Apple’s Eddie Cue Really Wanted to Bring iMessage to Android

Kellen April 27, 2021 52

The story of Apple bringing iMessage to Android found additional context today after a bit of further digging into depositions of Apple executives in their lawsuit with Epic surfaced. We know that Epic was able to get Apple to admit that they kept iMessage off...

Apple Admits Purposely Keeping iMessage Off Android Helps Lock Users In

Kellen April 8, 2021 137

Epic and Apple are preparing to battle it out in court over the App Store (remember that whole Fortnite debacle?), so in the lead-up to that showdown, both sides presented filings where they laid out their cases. In the filing published by Epic, where they...

Beeper App Brings iMessage to Android Using Magical Jank Sauce

Tim January 21, 2021 23

There's a new app on the block, one that has everyone talking. It's called Beeper and to explain what it is, the app takes 15 of the most popular messaging platforms and crams them into a single interface, making your life much easier. And yes, iMessage is...

RCS End-to-End Encryption Hinted at in Internal Google Messages Build

Kellen May 25, 2020 5

For Google Messages to continue to take steps towards matching Apple's iMessage in features, its biggest need is arguably in the private security department. We're talking end-to-end encryption over messages, which Google has yet to include. According to an...

iMessage-Like Reactions Start Showing Up on Google’s Messages App

Kellen May 13, 2020

The dream of so many Android users is to finally have a messaging app that can rival Apple's iMessage. There aren't many that come close, but Google is certainly doing its best to give us that with Messages, thanks to RCS and its set of "Chat" features....

Google Might Implement iMessage’s Text Reactions

Kellen March 6, 2020

Receiving a "Liked" or "Thumbs up" text from a person you are having a conversation with will never not be weird. You know that person is a iPhone user, is on iMessage, and had just initiated one of iMessage's reactions to your text, only it was supposed to...

Google Says It’s Ready to Bring RCS to Your Phone, Carriers be Damned

Kellen June 17, 2019

Less than two weeks ago, just as Verizon gave the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ access to RCS messaging, I shared with you a few pointed thoughts on how bad the RCS situation has become. In fact, I said that "RCS is dumb" because of the way Google has tried to roll...