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

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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