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Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months agoIts not just the word bubbles. Pictures and videos come through on Android like complete shit. I can’t even have my wife send me pictures of the kids cause I can’t see them on the other end. Nor can I watch family videos sent to me. Its much more than simple colors, but of course kids are getting bullied for that.
Now this makes sense, thank you. Garbage quality video and pictures are a so annoying. It seems to ruin an entire group chat if one of them is on an iPhone. I often have to wait until I see someone in person or have the. Send it through a different app for the video to work.
I have yet to get a conversation to switch to Signal or something to avoid the potato quality videos
Apple could fix this by uploading the photos to iCloud and sending a link.
I always send an iCloud link for photos when I know that there’s someone who may not be using an iPhone. I’m not sure why others don’t. It’s especially useful when sending large numbers of pictures.
That’s what the Verizon messages app does, just with a Verizon website instead of iCloud. I found it very annoying and slow to use.
Yea, this is a USA problem. Elsewhere everyone just uses a messaging app of their network's choice.
It’s not entirely true. In Scandinavia for example, iPhone is the majority market share, on average higher than that of United States.
ThePantser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tell the wife to use telegram or another messaging client. There are plenty of perfectly good alternatives to imessages.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We use messenger, which I also don’t like. Its ridiculous. If these fucken tech giants aren’t going to right interoperability standards then someone needs to force them to. We made all this shit to make life better and somehow have forgotten that was the fucken goal.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For better or worse you happen to be using the one messaging app that is broadly agreed to be worse than iMessage.
Signal and Telegram are far superior, even putting aside the most glaring flaws of the other two.
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Signal/Telegram are not very common where I’m at. I have Signal, nobody in my contacts does.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’d say Telegram isn’t superior. It’s default encryption is nowhere near iMessage.
And if you step up the encryption, you lose group chats.
For it’s flaws, iMessage is a very good solution, one that Signal was emulating for a while.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Its convenience. Why have both of us download a new app strictly for pictures when she is already on Facebook, and I have a dusty one with no posts for a decade. Plus getting someone in the US to download a 3rd party messaging app is like asking them to respond to the Nigerian Prince for his offers.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why should they be forced to interop? That’ll just reduce it to the lowest commend demoninator. What impetus would any of them have for investing in making a better system if everyone can use their work?
We have choices. We don’t have to use iMessage, or Beeper. We can use other messengers.
Forcing interop means all messengers will function the same… Again at the LCD level.
Tertle950@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 months ago
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
interoperability is the capability of a product or system to interact and function with others. Why would that force them to all function the same? Why would that be bad for us as consumers? Why does it matter how many choices we have if those choices restrict us to using a specific one? Interoperability solves all of these and causes none of the problems you are stating. Of course they have no incentive for doing this as it doesn’t benefit a corporation, they’re only incentivized to entrap people in their ecosystems cause it makes them the most money. Different messaging standards is one of the ways they keep us locked in. This is a choice, too, one made by the tech giants for you with no choice in the matter. You can’t send a nice quality picture from iMessage to Google Messages, get fukt.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Why messenger of all things. That’s the worst one.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I prefer Signal to telegram and it’s been amazing the whole time I’ve used it
Now if I could just convince more people I know to switch to it that’d be great
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The better option is to push Google and Apple to adopt a completely open version of RCS with end to end encryption so that regardless of whatever app someone is using, you know for a fact that they can receive your message.
The broken messaging ecosystem between WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and others is a shit sandwich.
People would lose their minds if email was the same way.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Right, right.
derf82@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That doesn’t solve the interoperability problem. You can’t guarantee who has what messaging app. You shouldn’t need a 3rd party app for basic functionality, anyway.
Fly4aShyGuy@lemmy.one 11 months ago
That’s certainly less desirable option for many. But why is wanting modern cross platform messaging so bad? It works iPhone to iPhone, works Android to Android, theoretically if there were other players (maybe if BB or Windows still had phones) they could also achieve the same using RCS with Android. This argument is and has always been about default protocols that phone can communicate with. Of course downloading 3rd party chat apps, emailing them, mailing them a letter, using a cup and string, stopping communication because they chose to use a phone from a different manufacture are all still “options”.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like Signal better than my standard android SMS app. I can send more pictures at a time, video at high quality, and it does groups well.