Owners of an empty Phone 2 will see a blue bubble.of company shared We’ve added iMessage to modern phones through the new “.don’t chat anythingThis app uses the messaging platform Sunbird. This feature will be available to users in North America, the EU, and other European countries starting Friday, November 17th.
The company’s page doesn’t say it’s doing this because “messaging services are dividing phone users” and that it wants to “break down those barriers.” However, you have to trust Sunbird to do so here. Nothing is written in the FAQ Sunbird’s “architecture provides a system for delivering messages from one user to another without storing them at any point along the way,” and messages are not stored on the server.
But for this to work, you’re giving companies access to your iCloud account. As we’ve learned over the years, companies don’t always deliver on their promises.At least worth a look Sunbird Privacy Policy And I remain very skeptical about that.
of washington post After testing out the feature, he wrote that Nothing Chats “mostly” works, but that it takes away some of iMessage’s nicer features, like the ability to edit messages and tapback reactions. still. “Group chats also seem to be disabled if someone in the group isn’t using iMessage. post It says that a message may need to be sent multiple times before it is actually sent.
Just like native iMessage, the other person won’t see you as you type, and you can share uncompressed media. ( post Full-quality image sharing is “usually fine,” he said. ) Read receipts and message reactions are planned for the future.
Normally, you would have to be on a waiting list to access Sunbird. post Sunbird CEO Danny Mizrahi wrote that “the only way to get Sunbird for the next few months is to get Nothing Phone 2.” Beeper, another service that provides access to iMessage on Android and Windows devices, also has a waiting list six figures long.
It’s also worth noting that Nothing won’t roll out this feature until Friday, perhaps giving Apple time to block it through either legal threats or technological means (although it’s unclear which is also difficult enough that the feature might be exposed before it’s executed (so). Karl Pei, CEO of Nothing, is quoted. post He said the app is not intended to “change the world” but believes it will “start a conversation.” The EU is currently investigating whether iMessage should be designated as Apple’s “core platform service.”
We’ve reached out to Apple for comment on Nothing’s plans and will update this article if Apple comments on the matter.