Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 8 months agoIf you’re that concerned with security, shouldn’t you be using Signal and try to convince others to do so? iMessage is E2E encrypted but Signal is platform-agnostic and has better security/privacy.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t care but you have to convince Apple. People really pile on for the most trivial of comments.
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can’t speak for the others, but I’m just curious as to why iMessage’s quirks are heavily put up with. With the options of messaging apps nowadays, the “green bubble” stuff seems like an arbitrary problem.
Sure, it’s stock software, but plenty are willing to switch off Edge/Safari for Chromium browsers. I understand that there’s strong social pressure to conform to using the same messaging service.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Network effect. It’s easier to convince the one green text to switch than to convince everyone to switch to an alternative. Even in my one immediate family we only have one Android. As a result we have two group threads, one of which excludes that number so images and videos will go through at full quality. Message is the default so people use it. I’m aware that’s not the case in other countries.