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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What's the point of even using iMessage when there's so many better options for messaging.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    "It's installed by default and all my friends are on it" - 50% of Americans

    They don't need to worry about the fact that the other half of Americans are not able to comfortably message them, or participate in group chats, because those are people poorer than them that they might not even want to interact with anyways. Some of them might even be not white.

    This becomes even more extreme as ages become younger, with around 98% of college age students and younger having iPhones (this is obviously biased to higher income colleges in metropolitian area but the data is still useful). The peer pressure of not having an iPhone is genuinely incredible (trust me, i experience it). I have genuinely had people stop wanting to be friends with me once they learned I had an Android phone.

    Apple has a monopoly so powerful that they influence the social circles of almost every grade schooler and college student in America. This is why they don't want to give it up.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can afford Apple products. I dont buy them, because, fuck Apple.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If someone offered me a free iPhone on the condition that I use it, I'd decline.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I did get given a free iPhone! I opted not to use it.

    • Terrible email client options
    • Can't rearrange your home screen beyond changing the icon order a bit
    • Firefox is just Safari with a groucho marx fake nose and glasses
    • Notifications are laughable by comparison
    • Share options are laughable by comparison
    • Camera is supposed to be better than any Android device ever invented, yet somehow managed to take blurry photos ~50% of the time so I'd end up taking 6 photos in every situation to make sure I got one where you could use it. I may be an edge case here as I'm mostly taking photos of name plates and technical documents where crisp detail is super important... iOS just wanted to make pretty colours and boke the world, even if it meant half a name plate was in focus and the back was artificially blurred for that sweet Instagram professional photographer look.
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As an adult with Android, I can say this is real. I was on Safari in Africa and everybody else with me had iPhones. They were airdropping pictures to each other and I was reduced to begging for somebody to email them to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    We were on a tour and the guide had an iPhone, but we have Android phones. He took some photos and said "Oh if you had an iPhone I could just Airdrop them to you" and we said "If you had an Android phone you could Nearby Share them to us".

    Then there was much explaining about how Airdrop was better because it works with iPhones, and Nearby Share is no good because it won't work with iPhones.

    Couldn't quite get them to see the irony about that complaint.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I have never had an issue with messaging anyone in iMessage, regardless of what platform they are using. Serious question: is there something I am missing out on with iMessage that warrants investigating alternatives?

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  • [+] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's interesting about the reactions. I'm an Android (Pixel) user, and I swear when using the standard SMS app on my phone, from some iOS users I see their reactions as an emoji, while from others it does the "[user] liked your message" thing. Could it also be related to the version of iOS that's being used on the other end?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So.. What your telling us is that it's bad. Not good.

    because incompatible. It won't work on any device. Except those of that cult. That cult whose leader killed himself after magically getting a a new liver somewhere in Asia.

    You know, donor organs for which there are waiting lists of months and months.

    Which was totally not weird and surely 100% legal and all. Just fine.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The ability to message people who don't own the same phone as you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m not sure why you think I can’t do that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    iMessage can only send SMS messages to non Apple phones, which suck. And if you have friends in other countries get crazy expensive and suck even more.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    If you don't have a blue bubble on your friends phones, they will bully you until you take an AR-15 to school and kill everyone.

    Either that, or suicide. Blue bubbles are a leading cause of suicide among tweens and teens in the US.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have Andriod and my wife's got iPhone. IMessages don't deliver.. or deliver hours later. Images don't make it.. or make it xna they are potato.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    You aren’t sending iMessages. You’re sending text messages, and vice versa. Old school SMS and MMS (from the days of the first cameraphones…the standard hasn’t changed much since then) are the best common language between your phones.

    Google/Android support RCS, the open modern protocol to replace SMS/MMS, and Apple is being sluggish to implement. Apple also supports iMessage, the default enhanced language to replace SMS/MMS, but that’s a closed protocol, and as such only supports Apple.

    Sent from wefwef for iOS, but I’d still say Apple are the assholes here. The only reason I even have a damn iPhone is because most of the people I exchange pictures/videos with, and the people they exchange pictures and video with, happen to use iPhones. So there’s no incentive for all of them to switch to a third-party platform for just me.

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