Comment on Beeper Mini, days after launch, seems to be broken with iMessage not sending or receiving

almar_quigley@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We need a sticky for this.

  When a group chat on iPhone includes an SMS-only participant, it downgrades the conversation for everyone to SMS. So everyone gets crappy images, and certain iMessage group features don’t work.

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So?

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  iMessage chats are supposedly horribly broken for people participating over SMS. It got so bad in the US that teenagers treat it as a status symbol too.

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  • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As an android user, I treat it as an early red flag.

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  • Poggervania@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Adding to this, people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

    We’re also apparently the largest userbase of iMessage, whereas the rest of the world has more sense to use third-party apps to talk to family and friends from around the world.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      people Some/many iPhone users in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

      Ftfy.

      Plus, the iMessage approach is the right answer. A single messaging app that will use a modern network-based comm channel with anyone who has the capability, with a fallback to SMS/MMS for those who don’t.

      Which Signal was doing until this year, unfortunately.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I use textra. My message bubbles are blue. I am cool.

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      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hahahaha, have an upvote.

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      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hahahaha, have an upvote.

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      • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I switched from Textra recently to get the benefits of RCS in Google Messages. I really wish more apps would(/could?) implement it than Google’s own.

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    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

      Children. Children do that.

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    • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Never heard of this being a status symbol in the US… what a dumb notion.

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  • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know, people mention the status thing, and I keep thinking "I've never once ever heard or read someone even remotely implying that (except super obvious trolling). Who the hell is actually saying this? Sounds like something people just say about 'fanboys'".

    But being a thing with kids makes sense. Especially how little I care about what they think.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve heard it, I have Millenial and much younger family members, and it’s a real thing.

      Kids/young adults are horribly status conscious, and since SMS really breaks iMessage conversations, they’ll sometimes leave out people who don’t have iMessage rather than deal with the downgrade.

      It’s crappy, it’s juvenile, but it happens plenty… Just like the dumb, juvenile stuff we did when we were… juveniles

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      • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Am millennial. Wtf people are dumb.

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