Out of my 10 most recent client contacts, only one has used SMS. The rest are all iMessage.
Sure, that’s anecdotal. But I’m in the UK and this is my experience.
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Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months agoOkay interesting, thank you for the info.
Who even uses iMessage these days? Pretty sure I turned it off completely because it was messing with the 5 SMS I send in a year …
tarknassus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
iMessage is far more common in the US afaik. Whereas most people elsewhere will use WhatsApp or whatever, nobody in my extended family uses anything but iMessage to communicate
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Ah, yeah right, the US is still stuck in the 00s with that (and payment methods).
But iMessage doesn’t work on Android and by default the message will just fail if they have an Android phone and you use iMessage.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is interesting. In Europe it just switches to text message automatically when sending to people with android.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
In The Netherlands it doesn’t and last time I checked we are still part of Europe lol
tarknassus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Really? Mine defaults to SMS if they don’t receive it as an iMessage message. I can’t recall it ever failing, only a long while back I would get a failure that prompts me to send as SMS - and I’d do it. It’s automatic now.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Not sure how long iMessage has existed, but it never properly worked for me on any iPhone, and neither for my partner. I also helped others change the settings to just default to SMS. By default it doesn’t show that you need to send a SMS, and it definitely doesn’t retry it, at least not in NL.