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A 16-year-old high school student delved into the workings of Apple’s widely used iMessage, setting off a chain of events that ultimately led to a legal showdown with the U.S. government.
iMessage is Apple’s internal messaging app with more than 1 billion users worldwide and comes pre-installed on Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad.
Driven by curiosity, James Gill set out on a mission: to uncover the inner workings of iMessage, aiming to understand the complex development process behind certain features.
However, this exploration led to the teenagers reverse-engineering iMessage, which attracted the attention of Apple and ultimately led to a lawsuit from the U.S. government.
The tech giant now faces accusations of stifling competition.
“I just want to understand how something works,” says James Gill ABC network. “As a teenager, I had a lot of time to throw things around.”
Despite iMessage’s widespread popularity, attempts by third-party apps to make the messaging platform available for Android phones have proven challenging.
iMessage has always made text messaging on iPhone smoother than text messaging on Android.
Sharing photos and videos with Android suffers from a loss of quality and lacks important features like read receipts and typing indicators.
James Gill figured out how to bring blue bubble iPhone and green bubble Android together to transform the texting experience for users of both platforms.
“It was more of a curiosity and wanting to figure out how this thing works and also like it’s cool to mess around with it, you know?” he said. “I wanted to know how it worked, and I knew it was possible…I just kept working on it.”
Gil successfully hacked iMessage using his program “Pypush” and shared the results on GitHub, where users noticed its commercial potential.
Earlier last year, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Apple’s decision to restrict competitors.
“Green bubble text is less secure. So why is Apple blocking a new app that allows Android users to chat with iPhone users on iMessage? Executives at big tech companies are protecting profits by squelching competitors. Between different platforms Chatting between people should be easy and safe,” she wrote. on X.
Green bubble text is less secure. So why is Apple blocking a new app that allows Android users to chat with iPhone users via iMessage? Executives at big tech companies protect profits by suppressing competitors.
Chatting between different platforms should be simple and secure. https://t.co/fHAS5ckaEA
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 10, 2023
The Justice Department is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, according to unnamed sources. New York Times.
Beeper, a single app for chatting on various chat networks, has hired Gill to use his algorithms to create Beeper Mini, an app for Android users to use iMessage safely.
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