{"id":20356,"date":"2018-01-30T17:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2018-02-05T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T19:19:34","slug":"imessage-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/imessage-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"iMessage on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustyshelf\/status\/957779588809048064\">Russell Ivanovic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustyshelf\/status\/957779588809048064\">\n<p>Honest question: do you think Apple will bring iMessage to Android? I feel like the list of reasons they should outweighs the shouldn&rsquo;t in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustyshelf\/status\/957782594065608704\"><p>Apple Pay Cash is the business model. As is the Halo Effect of doing it well. And yes, I think a CloudKit backed iMessage could be both reliable and good.<\/p>\n<p>Also think about the value in being <em>the<\/em> message service people use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I, too, wonder the calculus for keeping iMessage Apple-exclusive will change. In this case, Apple Pay everywhere could be a great business, but I doubt that Apple would want to deal with supporting it on third-party hardware with differing mechanisms for secure storage, which are not controlled by them.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-02-05): See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/vector.libsyn.com\/071-could-apple-take-imessage-to-icloud-and-android\">Rene Ritchie<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Ivanovic: Honest question: do you think Apple will bring iMessage to Android? I feel like the list of reasons they should outweighs the shouldn&rsquo;t in 2018. Apple Pay Cash is the business model. As is the Halo Effect of doing it well. And yes, I think a CloudKit backed iMessage could be both reliable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[248,995,140,31],"class_list":["post-20356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-apple-pay","tag-imessage","tag-ios"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20413,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions\/20413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}