Apple Restricts Pebble from Being with iPhones

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  1. noTunes

    A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching.

    just in case anyone else is running in to this problem, there is a solution

    https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

    this will prevent itunes/apple music from opening

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  3. BTNotificationEnabler

    Send all iOS notifications to your Pebble

    Reminds me of time I wrote a jailbreak tweak for iPhone to enable more types of notifications:

    https://www.engadget.com/2013-02-14-hack-brings-all-iphone-n...

    https://github.com/conradev/btnotificationenabler

  4. koreader

    An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

    An answer with a catch:

    I ran rooted android phones for a long time, but have for the past few years been on GrapheneOS, which doesn't require Google Play, but allows you to use it while sandboxing it (so, harm reduction), and it's much less of a struggle now than it used to be.

    The catch is that, at least currently, GrapheneOS only works on (Google) Pixel phones.

    [On Kobos:— I agree on Kobo vs Kindle, and like Kobos a lot: but partially because I don't actually have to use Kobo's software if I don't want to. (See KOReader[0] and NickelMenu[1].)

    [0:] https://github.com/koreader/koreader

    [1:] https://github.com/pgaskin/NickelMenu ]

  5. NickelMenu

    The easiest way to launch scripts, change settings, and run actions on Kobo e-readers.

    An answer with a catch:

    I ran rooted android phones for a long time, but have for the past few years been on GrapheneOS, which doesn't require Google Play, but allows you to use it while sandboxing it (so, harm reduction), and it's much less of a struggle now than it used to be.

    The catch is that, at least currently, GrapheneOS only works on (Google) Pixel phones.

    [On Kobos:— I agree on Kobo vs Kindle, and like Kobos a lot: but partially because I don't actually have to use Kobo's software if I don't want to. (See KOReader[0] and NickelMenu[1].)

    [0:] https://github.com/koreader/koreader

    [1:] https://github.com/pgaskin/NickelMenu ]

  6. Jared

    An easily extensible chat bot for iMessage written in Swift.

    Can you stop moving the goalposts? There's a ready-to-go open source solution for MacOS [1] that exposes a REST API [2] for interacting with iMessage which allows automation and the sky hasn't fallen like you predicted it would. Professional spammers would no doubt be way ahead in capabilities.

    Relying on clients to stop spam would break just about every security design principle so that could never be the primary spam filtering mechanism. Indeed, if you search Github, you'll find evidence of this [3].

    Allowing a third party gadget to talk to an iPhone to send messages isn't going to open the floodgates to spam any more than it already is for what I think are pretty obvious reasons - anyone who could exploit those integrations can already exploit current APIs with exactly the same limitations.

    > In contrast you need to hook into Apple APIs / scripting / sqlite databases on trusted apple hardware in order to automate iMessage.

    And that wouldn't change, you would still need to pair a real iPhone to your fake "spammer edition" Pebble, and then your Apple ID and iPhone would quickly get banned. Presumably just like it does now if you abuse [1], otherwise that's just bad design.

    It's frankly ridiculous that this is even being suggested on a "hacker" forum with nothing but wishy-washy qualifiers about how easy or "hard" it would be.

    [1] https://bluebubbles.app/

    [2] https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/765844/UV5RnfwM#0d8e0...

    [3] https://github.com/ZekeSnider/Jared/issues/65

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