iMessage on Windows 10 (pre-release 19592)

Post date: 2020-03-31 23:45:24

I believe I asked this question a long time ago and the answer is probably still "no" but I thought I'd give it a go. I use my iPhone for everything and all my friends/work colleagues have iMessage. I do not use Facetime and do not need calls over my PC. I use Windows 10. The one feature I miss about OS X is iMessage and contacts. Asking for everyone to use WhatsApp or another platform is not feasible due to the technical diversity of my friend groups (details inside if it matters). Is there anyway in iMessage on Windows 10 pre-release that doesn't involve jailbreaking something?

iOS seems to intentionally cripple group threads with Android users by not displaying things like the Twitter "cards" (OpenGraph things in general). I would love nothing else but have an iMessage app on my Windows 10 and as native as possible. FB somewhat has taken some messaging off of iMessage but I have professional friends (doctors, lawyers) who purposely don't use FB.

My other friend and professional groups are artist/creative types who use iPads as their primary laptop and getting everyone to switch to another platform for me would be not be feasibble. Plus I airdrop a lot for business purposes and iMessage seems to be the dominant platform.

Without jailbreaking my iPhone, I'd be willing to setup whatever overly complex setup to get iMessage working on Windows 10. I'd be willing to use WhatsApp/Telegram whatever as long as I show up as "blue" and appear native along with syncing with my iPhone. As in "Hey" on my desktop should also show up as "Hey" on my iPhone.

I don't care about the celebration animations, etc. I have no knowledge of SMS/MMS technology and I'm guessing iMessage is proprietary with some fallback but there's got to be an option. Everything else in the world seems to get "cracked" and seeing as I have physically have my iPhone if encryption is the issue I should be able to share keys? The whole iMessage protocol and how it works confuses me but I haven't delved into it.

If the answer is "no" a technical explanation why no one has hacked this like everything else would be great. Also Apple Pay has become defacto way of moving money around whether I like it or not so I can could see close friends "adopting" WhatsApp until it becomes an inconvenience.

I'm even okay with ApplePay or some advance features being iOS only as long as I can write and participate as native iMessage as possible.

FYI I have a MacBook Pro with Windows 10 but completely not worth it to boot into OS X to type messages.

Thanks!

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