iMessage

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about iMessage, oldest first

Jun 16, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Adult content will migrate to massive Apple iMessage groups
“I'm a hundred percent a believer in private spaces that will be booted everywhere. And, you know, ironically, like, you know, it'll be places like, you know, where the porn is going to go. It's going to go to like big iMessage groups and Apple won't talk about…”
Sam Lessin Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 12:11 #2: Reddit and the death of the public internet; the end of the VC "epoch" · More or Less Podcast
Aug 30, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Sam Lessin: WhatsApp and iMessage possess lobbying power Telegram lacks
“Everyone else who runs something like this, the WhatsApps of the world, iMessage, et cetera, they're all like Really fucking good businesses, and so they can afford the lobbyists and the games to play, and they can, they figure out compromise routes. Like, the…”
Sam Lessin Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 22:06 #62: Telegram, Free Speech and Its Limits · More or Less Podcast
Aug 28, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Sam Lessin algorithmically screenshots his son's iMessages all day to bypass Apple
“And like, by the way, you know, I have a desktop, like sitting in my computer in my room where I just like logged into my son's iMessage account. And I've sit there and fucking screenshot it all day long algorithmically. Cause there's no APIs to it. So I can p…”
Sam Lessin Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 34:19 Meta’s $17B Reckoning & Why Parents Can’t Compete With Big Tech's Algorithm · More or Less Podcast
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