5 ms·
Wasn't Apple's iMessage protocol supposed to be an open implementation too? Whatever happened to that?
by Chlorus 5y ago
Wasn't Apple's iMessage protocol supposed to be an open implementation too? Whatever happened to that?
- kitsunesoba 5y agoThat was FaceTime that they intended to open source, and it was supposedly a patent troll that forced them to move FaceTime to a more centralized design (it was originally P2P) which in turn made open sourcing more problematic.
- smnrchrds 5y agoThat was certainly the excuse. But it is trivial for Apple to buy any patent it needs. I believe the real reason is that FaceTime and iMessage hook people to Apple platform and discourage switching to another one.
- peytn 5y agoWouldn’t that encourage future lawsuits from other patent trolls?
- viro 5y ago> trivial for Apple to buy any patent it needs. Yea ... umm thats not how reality works. Companies CAN refuse to sell or license a patent at a rate that is not absurd.
- aeontech 5y agoThe patent troll in the case got a 440M award… and Apple had to spend a bunch of engineering time throwing out the already-working p2p implementation and rebuilding a centralized version… and you’re suggesting that this was all a mere smoke screen?
- smnrchrds 5y agoThey have 200 billion dollars in cash. They could have bought out the troll if they wanted to.
- meepmorp 5y agoNo, but even if you were right, what would that have to do with Signal?