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Android Devices May Soon Show iMessage Reactions as Emoji
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Um, do you even understand what this article is about? It’s about how the Android experience sucks. If you think your iPhone experience sucks, then you clearly aren‘t paying attention.
Agree.
But those Apple exec emails that came out in the Fortnight hearing showed they clearly fear that and their tactics to never play nice with other messaging apps.
I just want messaging apps to all have some universal standard. You end up with Messages, Android Message, SnapChat, Messenger, What'sApp.... I just freaking can't. It's soooo irritating. Honestly, chat apps are far better all around but there's too much fragmentation with even those.... but this is exactly what made those apps attractive in the first place.
The rest of the world uses WhatsApp (by Facebook). I don't mind being "part of the problem" and continuing to use SMS with my friends who all use it, as is common in the US.
if depend on country , line , wechat , whatsapp . unknown how much these day . We prefer for business black and white but still some prefer whatsapp for black and white. ooh world thse day
And what exactly is a public system?It should help me communicate with the legacy iPhone users who use propietary extensions on a public system.
SMS is unencrypted.
Both iMessage and WhatsApp are end to end encrypted.
Of course, if iMessage is available for Android it would be the best, but it isn’t.
Anyway, the second best option is totally not SMS.
There are complaints on this very thread about people being unable to leave group text messages, or being sent low quality MMS / SMS from an Android user. Sorry, but that makes MY experience terrible.
Yeah, I wish android would get a better messaging system. Licensing iMessage for android would be the best outcome. I use tap back constantly. Love it. I message has been 100% reliable for me since it’s implementation. A lot more reliable than sms. I have never, after thousands and thousands of iMessages, lost a single one. I will never use WhatsApp. It’s basically spyware. I will never use any google services for the same reason. Texting with an android user is always a chore because they can’t receive higher res videos or pics and you can’t react or reply to specific texts in a group thread. Pain in the ass. Hopefully google will fix this and get on board with a better system like iMessage.
I mean Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram etc.
There's nothing special about iMessage, for example most iphone users in Europe don't even use iMessage and relay on 3rd party messaging apps like the ones I mentioned above.
Android users can receive high res video and photos through RCS and literally any 3rd party messaging app. Whatsapp even lets users set up the quality of the shared media.
I don’t know about what most users in Europe do. I just know that most of the people I communicate with use iMessage and it is rock solid reliable and is not spyware used to market to me. Android users can’t receive the high res videos and pics I send nor can they get the tap back replies I send. Having android work on iMessage would be great so there would be no need for 3rd party software mining data. iMessage “just works” and it beautifully at that. It automatically works on every device I use: computer, phone, iPad… automatically and reliably. If someone doesn’t have iMessage or is in a spotty service area it just defaults to sms. Simple, easy to use, and encrypted end to end. It would be awesome if android could just license it and we could all have it’s features across the board.
The world doesn't resolve around you and you certainly talked in general when I quoted you.
Use something other than iMessage then which is just an exclusive messaging app that allows communication with other platforms only through the limited and unreliable SMS. So your bad experience with Android is 100% Apple's fault.
Also your obsession with data mining just shows how little you know. For example Signal is a secure open source messaging app that doesn't mine any data and even makes it hard to Governments to track. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/25/surveillance-sim-cloning-protests-protect-phone/
There's also Telegram. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43752337
Other messaging apps also just work.
Well it doesn't work with the most popular devices in the world: Windows and Android devices.
Anyway what you say it's funny, Simple, easy to use, and encrypted end to end. The moment it default's to SMS it's not end to end encrypted anymore. It also makes the experience complicated and unreliable.
1. Android is an OS, maybe you mean Google, the company that makes the OS.
2. It's not up to Google, iMessage is a proprietary platform and I haven't seen anywhere any intention from Apple to license it.
Anyway Google already has a solution, it's called RCS, look it up. It's also up to Apple to support it and unlike iMessage RCS is an open protocol.
SMS.
iMessage piggybacks on it. Apple knows all too well when it sends messages via SMS. This is a proprietary extension to a public system.
Last I checked Steve Jobs isn't actively leading Apple, and Tim Cook said this in the last two weeks... so I'm not going to split hairs here: Apple is making a stance and reaffirming it, even though they don't enforce it universally across their entire ecosystem.
This actually is a just fine solution.
I have to wonder what the real value is on keeping iMessage limited to just Apple devices. It falls into the same category as Discord, WhatsApp, etc. In fact, it may help raise awareness and brand.
The issue is that iMessage interfaces with SMS, and while doing so utilizes their proprietary extensions. So either get iMessage out of SMS-land, or fully play nice. No one accuses Discord of mis-using SMS because they just don't "speak" on it. iMessage is a data-centric technology where SMS piggybacks on the voice.
It was sarcasm. Calm down.
But honestly, if you and all your friends are Apple users and you have one friend who isn't, he/she by definition is an outcast... at least among your circle. Correct?