A few days ago in Google Play appeared iMessage for Android.
It's not a fake app, it actually works: the problem is how it works.
Since Apple doesn't allow chat between other brands' devices, messages are sent to a Mac Mini located in China, and then sent to the final destination.
The app is free and doesn't show any ads. They don't have a way to make money from this app, yet this "Daniel Zweigart" pays at least $100/month to house his Mac Mini in an internet datacenter: how he could pay for it?
There are two ways:
- he is a philantropist and does it for the glory
- it's a smart way to steal your Apple ID
Now, if your Apple ID, is "fake" like mine, registered without a credit card just for downloading the free single of the week from iTunes, there are no problems.
If your Apple ID is real, stealing the password leads to problems like those:
- They can buy apps for thousands of dollars, especially if those apps are made by their "friends"
- They can see all your iPhone photos
- They can block your iPhone just for fun, making a nice $600 decoration for your shelf
- They can reset your iPhone, losing all your data
- They can delete all your data from your Mac, as happened to that Wired journalist who lost years of personal photos
- They can see your passwords if you were crazy enough to sync the keychain on the cloud
- They can see your iWork documents, if you saved on the cloud
- They can send spam to your iMessage friends
- They can impersonate yourself and scam your iMessage friends
- and so on...
Ps: works perfectly on BlackBerry 10, but it's not available on BlackBerry World. If you want to download it, connect your Google Play account on barinstall.com