Poke's iMessage AI product faces huge platform risk, and Apple will never tolerate it
signulll · x · 2026-09-09
Analysis of platform risk for products built on someone else's messaging network:
- Apple would never tolerate products using iMessage in unintended ways, especially those relying on full disk access on macOS to read messages — it undermines Apple's privacy-guardian brand
- Poke's claim of being "approved by Apple" just meant low-level business approval for Apple Business Messages, the same channel used by Home Depot or Best Buy, hilariously announced as a blessing
- If trends continue, this becomes a major decision for John Ternus
- The same dynamics likely apply to WhatsApp and Meta
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