I have never had an issue with messaging anyone in iMessage, regardless of what platform they are using. Serious question: is there something I am missing out on with iMessage that warrants investigating alternatives?
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avitld@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
What’s the point of even using iMessage when there’s so many better options for messaging.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
NiaTheCat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[deleted]Redredme@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So… What your telling us is that it’s bad. Not good.
because incompatible. It won’t work on any device. Except those of that cult. That cult whose leader killed himself after magically getting a a new liver somewhere in Asia.
You know, donor organs for which there are waiting lists of months and months.
Which was totally not weird and surely 100% legal and all. Just fine.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s interesting about the reactions. I’m an Android (Pixel) user, and I swear when using the standard SMS app on my phone, from some iOS users I see their reactions as an emoji, while from others it does the “[user] liked your message” thing. Could it also be related to the version of iOS that’s being used on the other end?
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 months ago
If you don’t have a blue bubble on your friends phones, they will bully you until you take an AR-15 to school and kill everyone.
Either that, or suicide. Blue bubbles are a leading cause of suicide among tweens and teens in the US.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The ability to message people who don’t own the same phone as you.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’m not sure why you think I can’t do that.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
iMessage can only send SMS messages to non Apple phones, which suck. And if you have friends in other countries get crazy expensive and suck even more.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You also cannot call someone who has a different name or model phone as you.
Snekeyes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have Andriod and my wife’s got iPhone. IMessages don’t deliver… or deliver hours later. Images don’t make it… or make it xna they are potato.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
You aren’t sending iMessages. You’re sending text messages, and vice versa. Old school SMS and MMS (from the days of the first cameraphones…the standard hasn’t changed much since then) are the best common language between your phones.
Google/Android support RCS, the open modern protocol to replace SMS/MMS, and Apple is being sluggish to implement. Apple also supports iMessage, the default enhanced language to replace SMS/MMS, but that’s a closed protocol, and as such only supports Apple.
Sent from wefwef for iOS, but I’d still say Apple are the assholes here. The only reason I even have a damn iPhone is because most of the people I exchange pictures/videos with, and the people they exchange pictures and video with, happen to use iPhones. So there’s no incentive for all of them to switch to a third-party platform for just me.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 months ago
My mom had the same problem. She has a 6 year old iPhone and sometimes my messages are delivered days after I send them. Happened a lot last year…
hAhAhNKoReAn@fanaticus.social 9 months ago
Let’s wait for some appletard to reply
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Yeah, like session and signal
modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
“It’s installed by default and all my friends are on it” - 50% of Americans
They don’t need to worry about the fact that the other half of Americans are not able to comfortably message them, or participate in group chats, because those are people poorer than them that they might not even want to interact with anyways. Some of them might even be not white.
This becomes even more extreme as ages become younger, with around 98% of college age students and younger having iPhones (this is obviously biased to higher income colleges in metropolitian area but the data is still useful). The peer pressure of not having an iPhone is genuinely incredible (trust me, i experience it). I have genuinely had people stop wanting to be friends with me once they learned I had an Android phone.
Apple has a monopoly so powerful that they influence the social circles of almost every grade schooler and college student in America. This is why they don’t want to give it up.
TransSynthesist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I can afford Apple products. I dont buy them, because, fuck Apple.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If someone offered me a free iPhone on the condition that I use it, I’d decline.
Blazingflames6073@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same. My plan would be to sell it so I could buy something else lol
trk@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I did get given a free iPhone! I opted not to use it.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fuck those horrible people. They don’t deserve to be anyone’s friends with such a shitty attitude.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You have just described 98% of Americans.
Serinus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wanna talk a bit about where this comes from. There are what, two or three models of iPhone that you can buy off the shelf right now?
Think about grade school kids and their first phone. What do they get? Well, parents almost expect them to break the phone. If it’s an iPhone, then it’s one of the three, expensive models. If it’s an Android, it’s probably a cheap piece of shit (because on Android those are an option). It’s certainly not a Pixel or the latest Samsung.
So grade school kids learn that iPhone = quality, and Android = cheap pieces of shit. And even if at the high end Android is better, young people by and large don’t experience that. And it sticks with them. Apple did a similar strategy with putting Apple computers into every grade school in the 1980s.
And Apple is doing everything they can to reinforce this marketing and peer pressure, especially the iMessage thing. The only reason the iMessage “issue” exists is because Apple wants it to exist. They want the $700 cosmetic for chat to continue to exist. It’s a large part of their business model.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Most of my tech friends bought their babies iPad pros. As in, they crawled on them. I was told this will help them become programmers.
sour@kbin.social 9 months ago
is like they don't know addiction existe
calypsopub@lemmy.world 9 months ago
As an adult with Android, I can say this is real. I was on Safari in Africa and everybody else with me had iPhones. They were airdropping pictures to each other and I was reduced to begging for somebody to email them to me.
trk@aussie.zone 9 months ago
We were on a tour and the guide had an iPhone, but we have Android phones. He took some photos and said “Oh if you had an iPhone I could just Airdrop them to you” and we said “If you had an Android phone you could Nearby Share them to us”.
Then there was much explaining about how Airdrop was better because it works with iPhones, and Nearby Share is no good because it won’t work with iPhones.
Couldn’t quite get them to see the irony about that complaint.