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All messages are end to end encrypted. Also you don’t need an Apple account and it connects directly to Apple servers.
I don’t think they’ll open iMessage to be honest. They are working on implementing RCS, though, and they have indicated that they were going to ask the standards body governing RCS for an official E2EE system (rather than relying on Google’s current, proprietary implementation based on open protocols).
I expect their third party integrations to go through RCS unless they are ordered by a court to open the original protocol.
I don’t think they’ll open iMessage to be honest. They are working on implementing RCS, though, and they have indicated that they were going to ask the standards body governing RCS for an official E2EE system (rather than relying on Google’s current, proprietary implementation based on open protocols).
I expect their third party integrations to go through RCS unless they are ordered by a court to open the original protocol.