I would looooove iMessage to be an option on my PC computers and my friends’ Android phones. Signal is great, but iMessage is so super clean. I love that I can have E2E encrypted chats from my laptop to my friends’ phones.

People complain about BuBbLe CoLouRs without even knowing what it means… iMessage is legitimately amazing. 100% get it to other platforms, Apple!

[–] FeziSkull@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh do I have some good news for you then. The end of the summer a few platforms are slated to launch an iMessage on Android app.

Sunbird is the big one that is getting a large amount of coverage and sells itself as E2E for iMessage (we'll see at launch as it's in beta right now).

Beeper is another one that's an aggregation messenger similar to what signal originally was, but is also supposed to allow iMessage instead of its own alternative, as well as still being usable for text/RCS messaging.

I'm not working for either of these companies, I just have a significant other with an iPhone who always complains about my messages being green, and so I did some research into ways to fix it a few months ago and found both of these to be the promising fixes that don't require self hosting a server (funny seeing as this is lemmy, kinda the theme here). I've kept it under wraps from them to be a huge surprise when it launchs and all of a sudden they can't complain/talk about the platform superiority anymore.

[–] Mayoman68@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sunbird is somewhat suspicious to me because of the "we won't open source because it's less secure". Makes me wonder what godawful nightmare their app is if they don't want to let people look. Oh and if they're doing it as a business decision I don't want anything to do with them either as it's still vendor lock in.