Comment on Beeper Mini, days after launch, seems to be broken with iMessage not sending or receiving
misk@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoiMessage 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.
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.
peopleSome/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.
I use textra. My message bubbles are blue. I am cool.
Hahahaha, have an upvote.
Hahahaha, have an upvote.
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.
people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.
Children. Children do that.
Never heard of this being a status symbol in the US… what a dumb notion.
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.
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
Am millennial. Wtf people are dumb.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As an android user, I treat it as an early red flag.