Why don't people just move group messages to Whatsapp if the issues for Android are that significant? Why is it better to grant Android users access to iMessage?
Last edited:
There is nothing to the bullying arguments simply bedcause most teens in the US have an iPhone.I was only arguing there was something to the bullying argument when you look at a market share that seems like an outlier. Then the conversation spun out.
We can agree to disagree. I just don't think the narrative was invented completely out of whole cloth.There is nothing to the bullying arguments simply bedcause most teens in the US have an iPhone.
The average teen uses tik tok, snap, insta, facebook, and X(if you are 17-25). All which are cross platform.
Teens and Young adults are likely to use Snap over SMS/Imessage so they can hide things easier.
I am 27. SO im not a teen but im definitely still within the 20s something range and whenever a party is announced or an event, it is not through text message. It's usually on Social Media(namely snap).
When i meet guys at a bar or party they are asking for my snap or instagram. Not my number.
This is true for most people under the age of 30. The girl i made friends with Saturday night asked me for my Instagram not a phone number.
So no teens and young adults are not being bullied because they use a modern smartphone OS that allows them to use cross platform apps.
Now if you had said Windows Phone users vs Ios/Android, i could definitely tell you i felt left out because i didnt have snap lmao (2013)
Hopefully apple will take whatever legal recourse they can.Beeper could have its own third party app store soon 👊
Why don't people just move group messages to Whatsapp if the issues for Android are that significant? Why is it better grant Android users access have to be iMessage?
Invented? No.We can agree to disagree. I just don't think the narrative was invented completely out of whole cloth.
Hopefully apple will take whatever legal recourse they can.
On some level, even if this wasn't a big deal to most people, people in tech, and this site, is going to care. 87% market share for one ecosystem among teens is downright existential for the other ecosystem. It won't be economically viable to support other platforms in a generation or so.Invented? No.
I am sure there are kids who are/were bullied. Is it common now? No. Is it being exaggerated heavily? Yes, indeed.
I am sure there are women who judge men based on what phone they use and the color of a bubble? Just like women who judge men based on heigh or their car? Considering there are 4 billion or so women in the world, I fail to believe that most women care(Newsflash: we dont) what phone you use to text us. We just want you to text us lmao.
Android users use that as an example to try and make an issue when it is not one
I honestly don't know who's that into group chats, but they definitely seem to be huge with a lot of WhatsApp users, especially if they're communicating with others outside of North America. The only group chats I have are with family - and they're all on WhatsApp - but I only brought it up in response to the regular arguments I'm seeing in favour of opening up iMessage specifically because of group chats that include Android users.Hopefully apple will take whatever legal recourse they can.
The Android argument:
"Because American IOS users dont use anything else besides iMessage so they won't download anything else and then they make us feel bad for a color (we dont) and we are left out of group chats"
Not even trying to be rude but who in the heck is doing group chats (Outside of work chats) in 2023? Those are the most annoying things ever lmao.
We have a work chat on telegram.
Wow, imagine if the “fastest growing paid iPhone application in history” was “100,000 downloads”…Beeper Mini had the "fastest growing paid Android application in history," with more than 100,000 downloads.
I’ve said this before, but the blue and green bubbles have existed since 2011, and it’s only become a talking point in the last five years.you must not be reading the same thread.
Even with RCS coming bringing the very same features that iMessage has (And likely more), people still want iMessage to say they have blue texts.
You can look at beeper's subreddit which is dreadfully lame but hilarious to read and see it.
YOU might not care but it really is about the color so they dont feel slighted for being green. People are even mad that when RCS comes that the messages will still be green.
And I have said it before. They want both RCS and iMessage simply for the color.It is not about the color. The color could be orange, the majority of customers don’t care.
I’m in favor of anybody being a pain in the ass for Apple
if you need iMessage that badly, just get Apple devices....
Yeah, but then you have to deal with IOS and the land of a 1,000 bugs...if you need iMessage that badly, just get Apple devices....
I disagree. Some Android users simply don't want to use regular SMS in a market that prefers it because pictures (which people actually do put great value in) are worse off after transit, and videos are pretty much destroyed.And I have said it before. They want both RCS and iMessage simply for the color.
Sir, I’ll be right there with you. 😘Ok, well then, I look forward to seeing these articles for years to come.
Yeah, but then you have to deal with IOS and the land of a 1,000 bugs...
Yeah, this is a good idea. Give your apple credentials to a third party, who can then intercept MFA codes, send email in your name, access your payment information, and download your pictures.
Except the ones complaining aren’t actually American lolMost likely social pressure of colourful folks? Luckily this is only limited to one country as the rest of the world moved on to consume 🍿 watching 🔵 vs 🟢 fight 🤣
You can just use the phone link app. I use it to text from my iPhone and my surfaceI hope that the end game is that Apple finally creates iMessage on Android and also iMessage on Windows.
I want to get rid of WhatsApp. iMessage for Android might give enough people a nudge that I finally can.
I have all apple devices, but also a work laptop that is using Windows. I want to be able to send iMessages from my work laptop, with a real keyboard, rather than sending iMessages from my phone.
On this point: Piracy is hard to argue against when you’re talking about most retro games. If a game isn’t re-released, do you expect people to go out and buy the original hardware, game, and necessary adapters — costing them hundreds of dollars which don’t even go the the copyright holders?Emulators? Your argument is emulators. WHich 98 percent of the people who use Emulators are actually pirating the games lmao.
Wow, imagine if the “fastest growing paid iPhone application in history” was “100,000 downloads”…
I'm assuming no iPhone user with any decent amount of intelligence is going to give his or her Apple ID and password to this stupid little company. Why would they?Beware. Allowing a 3rd party company access to your Apple ID to deliver you iMessages will also allow them access to everything else associated with your Apple ID. These companies will typically keep your Apple ID signed into a server based Mac and although they will claim that iMessages are the only part of your Apple account they will use, you have no guarantee that they are not seeing or harvesting other data from your account, nor can you be guaranteed that this company is keeping that system secure and protected enough from data breaches and hacking the way Apple does.