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though briar said they will never support other operating systems, like it or not ios needs to be supported
Like it or not Apple may just say no. They already refuse to give Bluetooth access to background applications in a way that would be useful to p2p messenger. And AppStore inclusion is at their whim, which given their current track record in HK/China I'd be very skeptical about. So unless you are talking about users willing to jailbreak and modify core components of their devices support from application developers doesn't necessarily accomplish what you want.
That said, Briar developers said they are willing to give technical support to any independent party developing iOS client, they are just not planning to do it themselves. Which I find very understandable because:
If SimpleX decides to implement any form of Bluetooth messaging that's compatible with iOS it will be by necessity very restricted and there's very little the developers can do about that.
I think a messenger app these days should be native to both major mobile OS's and the three big one's for computers.
That's wishful thinking when some of the platforms just flat out refuse to support necessary features for maintaining p2p connections.
Complaining to application developers won't change a thing about that.
Complain to Apple instead, preferably in the form of not buying their products unless they actually open their devices to third-party software without artificial limitations in the way.
Having an opinion isn't complaining to the devs, what an odd thing to project.
Perhaps I could have, but I interact with briar or similar, and my friends - not apple. Let the people who owns an Apple device complain to apple, what incentives would they have to please me as a non-customer anyways?
I haven't bought an apple product since the first gen iPod nano. After that the nanos wasn't jailbreakable and I was out. On top of that I always advocate open source android instead of both ios and google android.
yes please express your opinion on the github discussions board
I think they're on GitLab, and I did years ago lol
edit: and that they need proper data export/import as well, that's a real bummer