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Zak@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I haven’t encountered any adults who actually care about that in one-on-one conversations. I have however been excluded from group chats because mixing iMessage and SMS users resulted in a degraded experience. The iPhone users were, of course unwilling to consider installing any other chat app.

I find the last bit pretty annoying. It takes about 45 seconds to download Signal and confirm your number.

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paintbucketholder@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just had that conversation with a group of adults who all had iPhones and were unwilling to add non-iPhone people to a group or change messaging apps.

The reasons given were:

My iPhone is too old, I can’t install another messaging app.

I’m not going to install another app where I have to remember another password.

Messages don’t go through when we add a non-iPhone user to the group.

The conclusion by the group was “just buy an iPhone!”

And that’s a group of adults. I can’t imagine the bullying and peer pressure teenagers have to face over something as idiotic as messaging apps.
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- Zak@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Meanwhile, I have six messaging apps on my phone (which is neither new nor high-end) and would be willing to install most others (not Facebook chat or Instagram) if it made communication easier for someone.
  
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