{"id":1203041,"date":"2023-11-14T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203041"},"modified":"2023-11-14T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:47:11","slug":"nothing-phone-says-it-will-hack-into-imessage-bring-blue-bubbles-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203041","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/100-800x546-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Nothing Phone 2 all lit up. \" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/100.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1746\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The Nothing Phone 2 all lit up.  (credit: Ron Amadeo)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Can an Android OEM really just hack its way into Apple&#8217;s iMessage? That is the hard-to-believe plan from <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/07\/nothing-phone-2-hands-on-pro-repair-styling-without-the-functionality\/\">upstart phone manufacturer<\/a> &#8220;Nothing,&#8221; which says the new &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/us.nothing.tech\/pages\/nothing-chats\">Nothing Chats<\/a>&#8221; will allow users to use &#8220;iMessage on Android&#8221; complete with a blue bubble sent to all their iPhone friends.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing Chat will be powered by Sunbird, an app developer that has claimed to be able to send iMessage chats for about a year now, with no public launch. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/11\/14\/imessage-on-android-nothing-sunbird\/\">Washington Post<\/a> article with quotes from the CEOs of Nothing and Sunbird, Nothing will &#8220;start&#8221; rolling out &#8220;an early version&#8221; of Nothing Chats with iMessage compatibility on Friday. The only catch, supposedly, is that you&#8217;ll need a Nothing Phone 2.<\/p>\n<p>Is this for real or a publicity stunt? Apple is <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/04\/epic-deposition-shows-how-differently-google-and-apple-treat-messaging\/\">on record<\/a> saying that iMessage on Android would only serve to weaken Apple, and it doesn&#8217;t want to do that. Surely, any Android OEM offering &#8220;iMessage&#8221; support would immediately have the project shut down by Apple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983702#p3\">Read 11 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983702&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The Nothing Phone 2 all lit up. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Can an Android OEM really just hack its way into Apple&#8217;s iMessage? That is the hard-to-believe plan from upstart phone manufacturer &#8220;Nothing,&#8221; which says the new &#8220;Nothing Chats&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1203041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}