Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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    1 year ago

    Because that’s how phones work, it links your account to your phone number and uses your contacts to tell you who’s on the app too using their numbers.

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      1 year ago

      Because that’s how -phones- Whatsapp works,

      Yeah, that is also how computer viruses work. I was very thankful for permission control. That app is cancer.

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        1 year ago

        Meh, I think some people are just paranoid on Lemmy when it comes to stuff like this. There’s plenty of laws in the UK around storage and use of information that protect users of apps like this.

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            1 year ago

            How else do you think a messaging app that replaces your phones messaging functionality is supposed to work if not on phone numbers?

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              1 year ago

              So you’re saying that the only way a messaging app can work is to access all the information from all your contacts? If it doesn’t have all that information, it can’t work? If Whatsapp can’t have all that information, it would be impossible to function?

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                1 year ago

                No, it’s fully possible to have its own account and log in system, but that adds a layer of abstraction that makes it harder to sell to people as a replacement for their inbuilt messaging apps which just require a phone number.

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                  1 year ago

                  If you give Facebook any benefit of the doubt in relation to privacy concerns, I guess I can only believe Zuckerberg to be correct.

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          1 year ago

          And all thieves pay close attention to laws, and make sure their apps have “nothing” hidden in the folds.