Comment by I_Am_Nous

>Beeper is the user's choice.

Me deciding to ride the subway to work for free is a user's choice, but that doesn't mean it's right. Using infrastructure for free because I feel like it is certainly my choice but I can't justify anger when someone makes me pay to use it since I should have paid in the first place. Currently Apple doesn't run iMessage as an open standard so it runs in "authorized riders only" mode.

>I don't think there's any way to claim that Apple is just doing whats in the customer's best security interest.

This isn't what I claimed. I claimed Apple treated unauthorized 3rd party access to their infrastructure as a security risk and worked to shore up that risk. As you pointed out, there have been plenty of zero-click exploits in iMessage. Limiting the devices sending iMessages increases security. I believe Apple doesn't allow iOS VMs in general for the same reason.