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.

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.

  • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    1 year ago

    I tried to use it a few months ago. It would not let me use it unless I gave it access to all my contacts’ information. I denied the permission request and it wouldn’t work.

    How in the hell are you okay with that?

    • AzureFrost@lemmy.oneEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure the stock SMS app that comes with your phone also needs access to the contacts permissions, but is enabled by default, so the app doesn’t even ask for it.

      • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        So in addition to that, why give the information to Facebook too?

        Remember, Zuckerberg thinks people are dumbfucks for giving information to him.

        Why do they go out of their way to disable the app if I deny access to contacts? Surely it would be less work to just add a couple of warnings telling me it may not work properly. But to disable the whole app? That is absolutely ridiculous.

      • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        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.

              • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                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?

                  • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    3·
                    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.

          • timetraveller@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

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

      • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        Give me the option to add contacts individually?

        That app is cancer, better just to nope out of the installation.