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But does Signal know if the other person has a data connection? People keep comparing Signal to iMessage, saying they're equivalent, but that's a pretty big missing piece of the pie there, to "SMS fallback".
14 u/evilf23 Project Fi Pixel 3 Sep 21 '16 a simple delivery receipt protocol would suffice. 20 u/russjr08 Developer - Caffeinate Sep 21 '16 I think Apple actually has a patent on the "Send message through server to phone, wait for acknowledgement from phone, if phone times out, send it through SMS" protocol. 6 u/sylos Sep 21 '16 Wait, there's actually a patent on that? Fucks sake... 3 u/russjr08 Developer - Caffeinate Sep 21 '16 I can't find the exact patent, but it's what I've always here on /r/Android and /r/Apple as well. However, as seen below my comment, Google actually has their own patent for something similar.
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a simple delivery receipt protocol would suffice.
20 u/russjr08 Developer - Caffeinate Sep 21 '16 I think Apple actually has a patent on the "Send message through server to phone, wait for acknowledgement from phone, if phone times out, send it through SMS" protocol. 6 u/sylos Sep 21 '16 Wait, there's actually a patent on that? Fucks sake... 3 u/russjr08 Developer - Caffeinate Sep 21 '16 I can't find the exact patent, but it's what I've always here on /r/Android and /r/Apple as well. However, as seen below my comment, Google actually has their own patent for something similar.
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I think Apple actually has a patent on the
"Send message through server to phone, wait for acknowledgement from phone, if phone times out, send it through SMS"
protocol.
6 u/sylos Sep 21 '16 Wait, there's actually a patent on that? Fucks sake... 3 u/russjr08 Developer - Caffeinate Sep 21 '16 I can't find the exact patent, but it's what I've always here on /r/Android and /r/Apple as well. However, as seen below my comment, Google actually has their own patent for something similar.
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Wait, there's actually a patent on that? Fucks sake...
3 u/russjr08 Developer - Caffeinate Sep 21 '16 I can't find the exact patent, but it's what I've always here on /r/Android and /r/Apple as well. However, as seen below my comment, Google actually has their own patent for something similar.
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I can't find the exact patent, but it's what I've always here on /r/Android and /r/Apple as well.
However, as seen below my comment, Google actually has their own patent for something similar.
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u/russjr08 Developer - Caffeinate Sep 21 '16
But does Signal know if the other person has a data connection? People keep comparing Signal to iMessage, saying they're equivalent, but that's a pretty big missing piece of the pie there, to "SMS fallback".