It’s also noteworthy that the RCS platform adopted by companies worldwide is run by Jibe, a company owned by Google. Doubtless, Apple doesn’t want to use Google’s servers any more than it needs to.

“open protocol” my ass. Google just wants control over everything.

It seems like all efforts to “bridge” imessage to anything outside apple software work this way - there’s a Matrix bridge and a dedicated open source app and they both rely on the imessage client on a mac. Is there a legitimate reason for it not being reverse-engineered yet?

Sounds right, I’d kike to know why this has been downvoted so much.

except you probably delete more than system files which could be easily restored from an install disk