Comment on Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution

theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  iPhones have the largest share of the US smartphone market. iMessage is the default messaging app on every iPhone, and cannot be changed. Ergo, iMessage is one of the top 5 largest messaging apps in the US. I believe it’s number 3 or 4 behind FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and FaceTime (also an Apple product).

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• snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyone who doesn’t want to touch a Facebook product with a thousand foot pole.

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  • Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And then there’s me, who doesn’t want to touch a Facebook, Apple, or Google product with a thousand foot-pole.

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    • the_q@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You don’t have a smartphone?

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      • Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I use Android and disable as much google stuff as possible.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yo.

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• Mereo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is largely a North American problem. More than 50% of phones are iPhone, and the de facto texting for iPhone users is iMessage. While WhatsApp is the default IM for most of the rest of the world, it’s iMessage in North America.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m so annoyed by people dismissing a standard protocol for sending messages builtin to phones and the networks they run on as unnecessary. We should have choice, but why in the fuck should we not have the most basic fucking infrastructure already in place that works with every device and without needing a new account/ app and needing to wrangle people we know into using the that app? I truly don’t get why people seem against a fucking standard just because they found a workaround for not having one

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So much incredible UX design work has been undertaken by the experts in charge of it… then we’re forced to reassess solutions (Signal or Telegram?), remarket them (everybody download this app!), support them (no grandma when you don’t have your glasses Siri can’t send Signal messages).

      Great job with your stock Apple and for driving the blind to tears with such excellent accessibility features and epic hardware… but you suck for stigmatizing kids’ digital lives and causing so much duplicative effort and confusion in the messaging space.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  iMessage is VERY popular in the Us.

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  • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, apprently. I didn’t know that. I think less then 10% of the people I know even have iPhones.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Different countries has wildly different phone and messaging systems preferences.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And wildly different economic realities. The difference between three months and five days of salary to buy an iPhone 15 (roughly comparing India & USA).

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Over 50% in the US. And under 30 it’s something insane like 75%

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• lhx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. Most of my family / peers have iPhones. So iMessage is the standard for them. We use signal for the rest.

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• Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the US, iMessage is really popular.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d assume some people use it when it’s available and just use regular texts or something like Signal for non apple contacts.

  I’d be really surprised if anyone only uses it and just never talks to anyone with an android…

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like RCS, iMessage falls back to SMS / MMS (aka “green bubbles”) if iMessage isn’t available.

    People still talk cross-platform, but people dislike the drop in media quality / functionality when they get kicked to the old protocol.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yawn.

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