P.S. messages via pigeons are waaaaaay more secure than SMS. For a fun time, search for something like “examples of SS7 vulnerabilities / attacks” and enjoy reading. That’s why 2G, parts of 3G and SMS must die - SS7 is insanely broken (it was created before security was invented as a word)
So…
then the info will go through google eventually, and if it is not e2e, then Google will see it.
Just a reminder, they do currently send SMS to android, and sms is fully unencrypted and fully visible to virtually anyone (including to google and everyone in the country on the receiving end).
I doubt Apple will ignore e2e just to flip Google with “green bubbles are insecure, use iMessage”. And people (if they are not Pavel Durov of Telegram) have a lot of faith in Signal protocol, so they don’t have to revolutionize anything - there is a good enough thing to implement.
And if Google and Apple both use Signal on top of the standard, it will become standard.