[coldtea]

>But over time I began to suspect, then later those internal emails exposed in the lawsuits made it clear - apple was holding everyone's messages hostage.

In an SQLiteDB any programmer can learn to navigate, and any third party can build a tool to export them?

Sorry but the "internal emails" prove nothing about Messages. It's just a quick and dirty implementation that "works good enough" for reading the latest, but not as an archive.

[dan-robertson]

Yeah I agree. The lack of a good schema/export function sounds to me like negligence not maliciousness. It’s a different issue from only allowing Apple-tech-users to use iMessage