Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

miridius@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I only just found out this year that text messages from IPhone or Android are a different colour in the US, and people judge you on that.

  Fuckin hell, that’s elementary-school-level behaviour 😂

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• sanitetah@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use SMS a lot, in the EU. So does, most of my family, and friends. So idk where you get this from? GF and her friends and family too.

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  • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My understanding is that while the US and some others quickly moved to unlimited texting plans, many European countries continued to charge per text so apps like WhatsApp become the defacto replacement

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    • pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Sweden I can’t remember the last time I saw a plan that didn’t include unlimited sms and calls. Only thing marketed is data. However if you really search for them I guess it’s still possible to buy something else somewhere.

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      • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes this was many years ago. Nobody pays per-text anymore but the past restrictions influenced people’s preferred messaging services in a way that stuck

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  • straypet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why?

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You probably use SMS mostly for getting codes

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  • Kyiro@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re all on Android, it’s very likely you’re using RCS not SMS

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• Xia@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m in the EU, I still use a lot the sms

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  • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting! Why?

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    • pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What else is there to use? SMS is the only cross platform protocol that works. MMS is horrible and Apple refuses ro support RCS. Of course SMS apps auto upgrades to RCS if both parties supports it which is in practice only between Androids.

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      • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, ICQ, FB messenger, Matrix, just to name a few!

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• Kyiro@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, even if people didn’t use SMS, Apple market share is actually growing and it could lead to iMessage becoming dominant like it is in the US.

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  • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People with iPhones don’t use iMessage either. They use WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal etc.

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    • Kyiro@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      WhatsApp is not a thing at all in Poland mate. It’s either fucking SMS/RCS or Messenger which has to be the worst one 😭

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Poland has 15.8 million Whatsapp users.

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      • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh man that sucks! I already hate that I have to use WhatsApp with people who don’t have Telegram, I’d be so angry if I had to use Messenger and even more angry if I had to SMS

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