Re: Needs to be on a phone to function? WTF???
"iMessage doesn't cause problems for Android owners because integrated into it is SMS/MMS so I don't need to care whether they have iMessage"
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Of course, if it automatically switches to SMS you lose encryption and privacy.
Better to just fail.
And Apple has been known to do stupid things like roll their own crypto libraries with built in vulnerabilites rather than using a common, debugged library. Yes, I know this is not the encryption used by Signal, but it is indiciative of bad security practices that may leave the device vulnerable.
Better to stay off Apple gear, and use an application that will fail with error messages if the software at the other end is not compatible.
With protocol agnostic or common protocol applications you have no idea how secure the application at the other end may be.
If it's the same application by design, then you can at least evaluate it and have some confidence of end to end security.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
