Gee... I wonder what Apple might fix next in this cat + mouse game...
Hackintosh users are doing the same thing as Beeper by skirting Apple TOS. you are no better than them.
Personally I feel it’s a simple price to pay if you must have the “blue” bubble or be in such a circle that doesn’t move to a cross platform app ;-)
As someone who has been fully on fruit company devices for more than a decade, both professionally and personally and never used iMessage - never had to or wanted to, this whole circus looks absolutely ridiculous.
I hope he will also speak out against Signal's Signal Monopoly, and Facebooks Whatsapp monopoly
A world so bizarre that people keep trying so very hard to access it on their own terms.
Apple is basically the debeers of the technology. they create both artificial scarcity and inflated prices. no one argued diamonds aren't tough, just their inflated social status.