| ▲ | dcchambers a day ago |
| 100%. iMessage is THE number one thing selling iphones these days, and has been for a long time. |
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| ▲ | handfuloflight a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| But why does it matter if the majority of cellular plans provide unlimited texting? |
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| ▲ | frollogaston 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It doesn't matter so much for 1:1, but SMS group chat is a mess (or MMS? RCS? idk). | |
| ▲ | tmpz22 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Its about the extra features iMessage has because of Apple's superset of the underlying SMS/MMS functionality. Its also about having a blue bubble (not-poor) versus a green bubble (poor). It defies belief how much some demographics care about this stuff, I didn't believe it when I first heard either. Some of it is improving with RCS but its got a ways to go. | | |
| ▲ | dcchambers 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Exactly this. Even if RCS does everything iMessage does, you still have a dreaded "green bubble" in iOS messaging which is a huge (anti) social signal to teens. Does it justify their reason for hating on Android/green bubbles? Of course not, but that's 100% the reality of the situation. | | |
| ▲ | frollogaston 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | Teens care about silly things like that, but a real thing I care about as an adult is group chats working properly. Like, I was looking for a realtor last year when buying a house. One of them had Android, and I really thought about it, do I want to take a nonzero chance of that somehow screwing the plans up on closing? That's not the main reason I went with another one, but I still paid attention to how many group iMessages we were in with lenders, seller's realtor, or just me + wife + realtor. Things really did come down to the hour during negotiating and closing, so it might've mattered. | | |
| ▲ | zifpanachr23 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Worrying about whether or not somebody has an Android is going to be very bad for your mental health given that something like 42% of the US cell phone market is Android. Is it possible that you are living in a bubble of people that are significantly more committed to Apple products than the median person? I don't live in such a bubble, and whether or not somebody has Apple or Android is not something I have ever heard an adult bring up as a serious thing. The most I've ever seen is as an observation about why some sort of thing in a group chat didn't work, but then everyone moves on with their day and the chat continues with the types of text and media that do work. |
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| ▲ | baggachipz 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Apple's implementation of RCS is such hot garbage that I disabled it and revert to regular SMS to text with Android people. I'm sure the shoddy RCS support is just a terrible mistake and not by design... | | |
| ▲ | pirates 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Would you mind listing a couple issues you’ve seen with it? You’ve got me curious if they affect me and I just don’t notice it what. I don’t have all that many contacts though, so it may be just be a numbers game. |
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| ▲ | theshackleford 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe in your neck of the woods, I see no evidence for outside of that. iMessage is completely irrelevant where I live. SMS/MMS full stop is irrelevant. |
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| ▲ | kube-system 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | In the US, people overwhelmingly use SMS/MMS/iMessage by default. It works with every phone, it's the one platform that people won't say "I don't have that" to. | | |
| ▲ | zifpanachr23 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yep, and I like it this way. | |
| ▲ | theshackleford 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've no doubt it may be the case in the US, I did not mean to suggest it's not. It simply doesnt have the same sway everywhere. I don't know literally a single person who uses SMS/MMS/iMessage where I live. And it's been this way for years. It's easily 99% whatsapp/messenger/discord etc. It's pretty openly joked about that the only thing SMS is still for these days is spam/marketing/political messaging. |
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| ▲ | te_chris 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Only in the US, the rest of us aren’t that petty and just use WhatsApp or signal |
