Submitted 11 months ago by Deemo@bookwormstory.social to askandroid@lemdro.id
Just kinda curious do you guys ever run into issues of lacking imessage (like your friends unwilling to use another app) or is it just a over blown issue.
I used whatsapp even on iPhone so it was a non-factor. I’m generally pretty mindful about not locking myself into walled gardens and would usually prefer even inferior 3rd party app to the polished proprietary one that I can’t take with me when I leave.
It depends on where you are. Outside the USA, hardly anyone I know uses iMessage really. It’s mostly WhatsApp everywhere else in the world.
I disabled iMessage as soon as I figured out I could. It’s made zero difference in my life.
I use signal I’ve actually put it onto other family members and such phones without their permission they haven’t even noticed so far.
Imessage I wouldn’t use even if I had an iPhone I actually did use to back in the iTunes days but when a single update took about 3 hours I switched.
I’m almost 30 I barely text, none of my friends care what messaging app anyone uses and most use whatever the default is. I don’t use any third party messenger, if I wanna share memes it’s in discord. I guess that’s a messenger though not attached to my phone number.
I'd only ever had iPhones until about four years ago. Switching to Android wasn't a big deal for me since I was already using Signal to communicate with the three human beings with whom I regularly exchange text messages. I've probably opened the message app twice since the switch.
It wasn’t that big of a deal, if you do not like seeing green bubbles then you are not worth talking to.
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 11 months ago
I’ve never used iMessage and don’t know anyone else that does. Could someone explain why it seems to be such a big deal for some people? Especially considering all the news about Apple clamping down on it working on Android. The whole green vs blue bubble doesn’t make sense to me personally.
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.
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 11 months ago
I’ll give that a watch!
Piped version for anyone interested: piped.video/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
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.
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.