Nothing has announced that the Nothing Phone 2 will support iMessage starting Friday, November 17. And no, Apple hasn’t adopted this platform interoperability According to documents from the legal battle with Epic, the messaging service decided to remain closed to prevent some of its users from switching to Android.

This innovation was not supported by the European Commission either – but these days it is being evaluated whether the service should be included within the scope of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The fact is that the company founded by Carl Pei has launched its own methodology to bring iMessage to its flagship mobile phone.

Nothing can get iMessage to Nothing Phone 2

“Tim Cook will not be happy,” Pei says in the video in which he explains some details of this move Designed to “break barriers” What separates iOS and Android users. This scenario is perhaps better understood in the United States, where applications such as WhatsApp are not as popular.

Americans primarily use messaging apps built into their mobile devices. In this sense, functions are lost when there is interaction between iOS and Android users. For example, in the iPhone chat window, messages from another platform appear as green bubbles.

Nothing promises to close this gap, but there are some nuances to pay attention to in the British company’s offer. First of all, as we said, the scheme Not endorsed by Apple and uses a proprietary implementation called Nothing Chats to allow for this cross-platform compatibility.

Nothing Chats is based on the Sunbird app, which is a service that acts as an intermediary. So if you have a Nothing Phone 2, you’ll need to sign in to Nothing Chats with your iCloud credentials, and Sunbird will save your credentials “as a token” in a database that they promise will be protected under encryption.

As Nothing’s PR manager explained to The Verge, Sunbird’s architecture uses: Mac Mini computers In the United States and Europe to operate the Service. According to the And Nothing page: “messages are not stored on Sunbird servers and are active on the device only.”

Now, not all iMessage features will be available in Nothing Chat, at least for now. On launch day, it will come with the ability to send messages, join group chats, see the “typing” legend, send high-resolution files and send voice notes. Read message confirmations, reactions, and replies will be coming “soon.”

At least we are faced with a risky bet on Nothing. We’ll have to wait to find out Apple’s reactionsomething that has not been made public until now. We also do not know whether he will take any action on this issue.

At the privacy level, we will have to take into account that we will use a service that will act as an intermediary to ensure compatibility between messaging platforms. So, for Apple, we are talking about an unofficial possibility, given that iMessage remains a platform closed to devices in its ecosystem.

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