{"id":1202918,"date":"2023-11-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202918"},"modified":"2023-11-14T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:00:00","slug":"nothing-is-bringing-imessage-to-its-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202918","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is Bringing iMessage To Its Android Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing Phone 2 owners get blue bubbles now. The company shared it has added iMessage to its newest phone through a new &#8220;Nothing Chats&#8221; app powered by the messaging platform Sunbird. From a report: The feature will be available to users in North America, the EU, and other European countries starting this Friday, November 17th. Nothing writes on its page that it&#8217;s doing this because &#8220;messaging services are dividing phone users,&#8221; and it wants &#8220;to break those barriers down.&#8221; But doing so here requires you to trust Sunbird. Nothing&#8217;s FAQ says Sunbird&#8217;s &#8220;architecture provides a system to deliver a message from one user to another without ever storing it at any point in its journey,&#8221; and that messages aren&#8217;t stored on its servers. <\/p>\n<p>Marques Brownlee has also had a preview of Nothing Chats. He confirmed with Nothing that, similar to how other iMessage-to-Android bridge services have worked before, &#8220;&#8230;it&#8217;s literally signing in on some Mac Mini in a server farm somewhere, and that Mac Mini will then do all of the routing for you to make this happen.&#8221; Nothing&#8217;s US head of PR, Jane Nho, told The Verge in an email that Sunbird stores user iCloud credentials as a token &#8220;in an encrypted database&#8221; and associated with one of its Mac Minis in the US or Europe, depending on the user&#8217;s location, that then act as a relay for iMessages sent via the app. She added that, after two weeks of inactivity, Sunbird deletes the account information.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Nothing+is+Bringing+iMessage+To+Its+Android+Phone%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F14%2F1738233%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twitter_icon_large-445.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F14%2F1738233%2Fnothing-is-bringing-imessage-to-its-android-phone%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/facebook_icon_large-223.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/14\/1738233\/nothing-is-bringing-imessage-to-its-android-phone?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/14\/1738233\/nothing-is-bringing-imessage-to-its-android-phone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nothing is Bringing iMessage To Its Android Phone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing Phone 2 owners get blue bubbles now. The company shared it has added iMessage to its newest phone through a new &#8220;Nothing Chats&#8221; app powered by the messaging platform Sunbird. 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