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If iMessage was available on Android would you switch?

If iMessage was available on Android would you switch?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 15.5%

  • No

    Votes: 64 66.0%

  • Possibly

    Votes: 18 18.6%
  • Total voters
    97
noobinator

noobinator

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Another thread about what is keeping me on Apple made me want to poll the people here. iMessage is probably the number one thing keeping me on iPhones. All my friends and family have it and it's so much easier to send texts, pics, and videos than through regular text messaging or any 3rd party app.

I know it will never happen but if Apple released iMessage for android would you make the switch?
 
Nah, I'm a grumpy simpleton who likes what's familiar. Until iOS stops working for me as it should, I don't see the need to plunge to something else. It's a tool, that's all, and I don't much care about customisation and stuff like that. I'd rather have security.
 
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Probably not..

Currently most of my android friends insist on messaging me through whatsapp, it's annoying as hell.
 
noobinator said:
Another thread about what is keeping me on Apple made me want to poll the people here. iMessage is probably the number one thing keeping me on iPhones. All my friends and family have it and it's so much easier to send texts, pics, and videos than through regular text messaging or any 3rd party app.

I know it will never happen but if Apple released iMessage for android would you make the switch?
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Like you OP, I would think nice and hard about it. iMessage is one of the biggest reasons I'm on iPhone. I'd miss things like Airplay, Apple music, and the nice integration of all my Apple products. But the alternatives are not terrible, Chromecast, Spotify, etc. I think the Galaxy S6 screens and design have absolutely trumped the iPhone 6S this iteration. There would definitely be some debate over switching.
 
Personally I pretty much use third party offerings on everything. Google music , vudu for movies and while iMessage is nice I have an unlimited texting plan and everybody I know has a cellphone as well. I also have a MacBook for any iMessage messages I need to send should I need to
 
iMessage just seems to get it right with their auto compression of pics/vids where as sending regular texts and using 3rd party apps compress videos so much they end up looking like I took it on a 1980s camcorder. This is why i love imessage.
 
Android or Windows phones would have to have both, imessage and facetime for me to consider it.
 
noobinator said:
Another thread about what is keeping me on Apple made me want to poll the people here. iMessage is probably the number one thing keeping me on iPhones. All my friends and family have it and it's so much easier to send texts, pics, and videos than through regular text messaging or any 3rd party app.

I know it will never happen but if Apple released iMessage for android would you make the switch?
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What app is used for texting on android?
Is it really that iMessage is that much better than the competition?

Using iMessage, I'm able to send texts to my brother who has a flip-phone as well as to my sis-in-law who has an Android phone...are they not able to reply back?
 
bufffilm said:
Using iMessage, I'm able to send texts to my brother who has a flip-phone as well as to my sis-in-law who has an Android phone...are they not able to reply back?
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That's not an iMessage, that's a text or SMS. iMessage is the protocol not the app. Messages is the app that can send both iMessages (blue bubbles) and SMS (green bubbles).
 
bufffilm said:
What app is used for texting on android?
Is it really that iMessage is that much better than the competition?

Using iMessage, I'm able to send texts to my brother who has a flip-phone as well as to my sis-in-law who has an Android phone...are they not able to reply back?
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Well yes I can send text messages to anyone but the benefits to me of imessage are:

pics and videos are auto compressed and in my opinion allow much larger file size than 3rd party apps or straight sms
i like the blue bubbles better than green lol
I know when someone is responding
 
I voted no. I have WhatsApp installed on my phone for group texts where not all my friends are iPhone users. I just prefer the overall stability of iOS.
 
I would really like for iMessage to be on Android, but it wouldn't make me want to switch. It would be more for convincing my few Android-using friends to get on it so that groups messaging is a bit nicer.

Unfortunately, getting everyone in my social circles to use a single platform is like herding cats, so a lot of times, we're stuck on group SMS.
 
noobinator said:
Well yes I can send text messages to anyone but the benefits to me of imessage are:

pics and videos are auto compressed and in my opinion allow much larger file size than 3rd party apps or straight sms
i like the blue bubbles better than green lol
I know when someone is responding
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the most important thing about iMessage is the fact that you know a message was delivered. far too many times i have sent messages that went undelivered because of my carrier.
 
noobinator said:
Well yes I can send text messages to anyone but the benefits to me of imessage are:

pics and videos are auto compressed and in my opinion allow much larger file size than 3rd party apps or straight sms
i like the blue bubbles better than green lol
I know when someone is responding
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i see...didn't know there was that much more with iMessage. that alone though wouldn't be enough to stay with iOS if there weren't others pros as well.

aside from my two sisters and one good friend however, the rest of my contacts are on Android.
 
noobinator said:
Another thread about what is keeping me on Apple made me want to poll the people here. iMessage is probably the number one thing keeping me on iPhones. All my friends and family have it and it's so much easier to send texts, pics, and videos than through regular text messaging or any 3rd party app.

I know it will never happen but if Apple released iMessage for android would you make the switch?
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I wouldn't switch because I think Android in general is a step down. iMessage is an example of a polished messaging application done right. Android has been out years and still can't get it done right. How many other application baked into iOS that are more polished than their counterparts? I'd say quite a few more. It's obvious that care and attention to detail goes into the design of iOS. I'm not sure other OSes have that same level of care when being designed.
 
Black Magic said:
I wouldn't switch because I think Android in general is a step down. iMessage is an example of a polished messaging application done right. Android has been out years and still can't get it done right. How many other application baked into iOS that are more polished than their counterparts? I'd say quite a few more. It's obvious that care and attention to detail goes into the design of iOS. I'm not sure other OSes have that same level of care when being designed.
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If you mean the same look since the first iOS, then yes. But saying the stock apps are better than stock apps on Android is a bit of a strech.
 
What it would do for me is allow me to switch between iOS and Android zero hassle. I'd welcome it to Android so I could keep a Nexus device around as a secondary phone.
 
Elisha said:
If you mean the same look since the first iOS, then yes. But saying the stock apps are better than stock apps on Android is a bit of a strech.
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It's subjective obviously. What apps would you say are better on Android?
 
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