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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have never had an issue with messaging anyone in iMessage, regardless of what platform they are using. Serious question: is there something I am missing out on with iMessage that warrants investigating alternatives?

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ability to message people who don't own the same phone as you.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure why you think I can’t do that.

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iMessage can only send SMS messages to non Apple phones, which suck. And if you have friends in other countries get crazy expensive and suck even more.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually had no idea anyone still charged money for SMS

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also if you're in another country almost everyone charges for roaming sms but you can use messaging apps on WiFi for free.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

You also cannot call someone who has a different name or model phone as you.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

If you don't have a blue bubble on your friends phones, they will bully you until you take an AR-15 to school and kill everyone.

Either that, or suicide. Blue bubbles are a leading cause of suicide among tweens and teens in the US.

[–] Snekeyes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have Andriod and my wife's got iPhone. IMessages don't deliver.. or deliver hours later. Images don't make it.. or make it xna they are potato.

[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

You aren’t sending iMessages. You’re sending text messages, and vice versa. Old school SMS and MMS (from the days of the first cameraphones…the standard hasn’t changed much since then) are the best common language between your phones.

Google/Android support RCS, the open modern protocol to replace SMS/MMS, and Apple is being sluggish to implement. Apple also supports iMessage, the default enhanced language to replace SMS/MMS, but that’s a closed protocol, and as such only supports Apple.

Sent from wefwef for iOS, but I’d still say Apple are the assholes here. The only reason I even have a damn iPhone is because most of the people I exchange pictures/videos with, and the people they exchange pictures and video with, happen to use iPhones. So there’s no incentive for all of them to switch to a third-party platform for just me.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

My mom had the same problem. She has a 6 year old iPhone and sometimes my messages are delivered days after I send them. Happened a lot last year...