Comment on Silly question for those comming from a iPhone. Do you miss imessage or was it not that big of a deal?

governorkeagan@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Stillhart@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q

  This is how I learned about it. Afterwards, I talked to my teenage nieces who are both on Android and they confirmed that it’s definitely a thing.

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  • governorkeagan@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll give that a watch!

    Piped version for anyone interested: piped.video/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q

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    • Stillhart@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      FYI, there’s a recent video that also touches on the recent news about this stuff. Posting it for you since you seemed to like the last one. No affiliation with MKBHD of Nothing Phone here, just sharing something I found interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5HwS3bhlU

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• Deemo@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure if your located in US, but an issue here is there a lot of people using iphones and a lot of them tend stick to the default messaging app and sometimes can rarley use 3rdparty messaging apps.

  For android users the gripe can be since people socially to use thirdparty messangers (its like trying to convince people to use signal over whatsapp). As a result sometimes a good portion of your chats can be stuck in sms.

  Group chats are a bit more of a pain since say all your friends are iphone users (and say they already have existing group chats) adding a android user will either not be possible or kick everyones chats back to sms. The biggest problem with the latter is carriers have different limits on number of participants for sms chats.

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  • governorkeagan@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess that makes sense. I still find it strange since it seems to be only (or majority) a thing in the US.

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    • Deemo@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The main culprit was in the rest of the world sms is very expensive meaning people early on where forced and got used to third party apps. In US by contrast sms is usually free/unlimited. As such people initially didn’t bother using thirdparty apps and when apple rolled out imessage the default sms app kinda became a pseudo standard (like whatsapp).

      At least thats one theory

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      • MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, that’s certainly part of it. But then we don’t usually have the really weird clique thing, I use whatever app I need to becuse random people use random things. If my attitude towards people was to denigrate them based on their bubble color well that would really be a thing for therapy

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      • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        iMessage came out when most cell phone plans had expensive SMS/MMS rates. Your basic plans used to get 200 texts per month. After that you would be charged $0.05/text. I didn’t have a text plan on my personal phone at all until they became unlimited.

        When the original iPhone came out Blackberry dominated the business users. They had blackberry messages or BBM. Many of the things you associate with iMessages were copied from BBM.

        The only reason that iMessages took off in the U.S. is because unlimited texts was part of the required data plan. Outside of the U.S. the cell phone companies continued to charge for texts. iMessage that would sometimes send it over SMS/MMS and sometimes over the data plan was stupid. So the other messaging platforms became the norm.

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