Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.privacy Subject: Re: RCS is not more private and secure than texting according to the FBI Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:05:12 +0100 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <0maa3lxnpe.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net gFKiBsORKSDRgp3fa1E+UwIXOqUeQPz7NihbFU/AsJJkMumz7e Cancel-Lock: sha1:g9ywo3fjGiX1K+2X11B8+YCV25M= sha256:VLgBF7qgCM/r5NXPg53itgHAG01K1Jwk+asUbKLEaKI= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:192186 comp.mobile.android:145487 alt.privacy:29730 david, 2024-12-20 21:50: > Using , Ant wrote: > >>>>> On the other hand Apple customers don't care. They also don't care that >>>>> FaceTime is only possible with other Apple users. In the US iOS has a >>>>> market share of nearly 60% and the Android market share is declining >>>>> slowly: >>>>> >>>> >>>> Given the US is only about half Android and yet the world is overwhelmingly >>>> Android, we all need to keep in mind Apple's vaunted "walled garden" >>>> doesn't work unless you have constant 24/7/365 Internet access which most >>>> of the world may not necessarily have. >> >>> For the record, my iPhone continues to work whether I'm connected to the >>> internet or not. >> >> Ditto. I put mine offline when not needed. > > How can you send and receive group facetime messages to and from other > Apple users without logging into Apple's messaging servers on the Internet? Is "send and receive group facetime messages" neccessary to do phone calls, taking pictures or listening to music stored on the device? -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de