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No but having an SMS API allows dodgy apps to signup kids for premium content. When dealing with security issues you don't just imagine the perfect case scenario.

And you use Chrome, Signal and WhatApp on iPhones. Not sure what you are talking about here.



> No but having an SMS API allows dodgy apps to signup kids for premium content.

So reject the dodgy apps then. What justification is that for denying it to Signal? In particular, what justification is that for denying it to Signal but not iMessage?

> And you use Chrome, Signal and WhatApp on iPhones. Not sure what you are talking about here.

Signal and WhatsApp on iPhones can't send SMS. Chrome on iPhones isn't Chrome, it's Safari with a Chrome logo.




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