The blue bubble/green bubbles saga continues. Apple prevented iMessage access from Android apps masquerading as Apple credentials to protect customers.
In the latest chapter of blue bubbles versus green bubbles, Apple has blocked access to iMessage from credentials masquerading as Apple in order to protect its customers, the company told CNET on Saturday evening. This comes after companies like Beeper and Nothing released Android apps that had provided a workaround.
The iPhone maker said that it cannot verify messages sent via «unauthorized» means that were posing as valid Apple credentials. Messages sent over iMessage have end-to-end encryption to ensure that no one but the sender and recipient has access. Apple said that it blocked these «fake credentials» in order to protect its customers.
The move comes less than a week after the company Beeper reversed-engineered iMessage access so that people using Android or Windows could use the service and send iMessages from non-Apple devices.
