The MacRumors Show: Should Apple Allow iMessage for Android?

[scorpio vega]

No they should not. Android users will be okay without blue bubbles.

You want them so bad, change your color isn't that what your OS is known for lol.

 

[scorpio vega]

Weekly? More like daily.

in some places every few hours lmao

 

[danysl]

So then the point of spending time and money to open up iMessage is voided; Everyone in Europe can just use WhatsApp.

and they do

 

[Boeingfan]

and they do

Perfect! Apple can move on!

 

[AdamInKent]

Perfect! Apple can move on!

On the other hand, if they measure success by the number of people who use their messaging app compared to their competitors, they are currently not the leading messaging app in most of the world.

 

[Boeingfan]

On the other hand, if they measure success by the number of people who use their messaging app compared to their competitors, they are currently not the leading messaging app in most of the world.

But that’s ok, it’s better to be the best instead of the most popular.

 

[scorpio vega]

Interesting stats....for Apple to have the most phones in the US according to these stats (albeit 3 years old) iMessage still is not the top used message app.

United States: messenger app penetration 2024| Statista

According to a survey conducted among internet users in the United States in 2024, Facebook Messenger was the most popular messaging service, with 55 percent of respondents using it.

www.statista.com

 

[ozaz]

I don't want iMessage for Android. I want Apple to support RCS. Thankfully they plan to do so next year and when they do I think a lot of the interest in Beeper will go away. In the meantime, I'm all for Beeper being a PITA for Apple, as that will hopefully expedite Apple's work to support RCS. I don't have sympathy for Apple on this as they have been too slow in getting behind RCS in the first place, and so have brought a lot of it on themselves.

 

[1129846]

Yes they should along with allowing a desktop windows application as well.

Remember a lot of people have to use windows devices for work and being able to just use iMessage would be great. I use a Mac for work and have for 10 years but my wife has to use a windows machine. I can and do message from my work machine but my wife can not and wishes she could.

Same as we sometimes have to jump to android things for work or older devices.

 

[AdamInKent]

But that’s ok, it’s better to be the best instead of the most popular.

I’m not sure that a Message app that doesn’t allow me to communicate with a significant portion of the people that I know can be described as the best 🤔

 

[Boeingfan]

I’m not sure that a Message app that doesn’t allow me to communicate with a significant portion of the people that I know can be described as the best 🤔

Then that’s when the significant portion need to buy iPhones 😂

 

[Boeingfan]

It looks like you’ve missed the point. If I buy a BMW and a friend of mine buys a Skoda then we can both drive on the same roads.

Not at all... the network is the road, and regardless of your phone of choice, you can make calls, send messages, etc.. Your phone of choice, however, will traverse that 'road' with the features and specifications it has been built with. Going to the Skoda dealership and telling them that it doesn't drive like a BMW would be good cause for laughter. The same applies to iOS vs Android.

 

[Boeingfan]

I’d say that the point of a communication tool is to communicate. A communication tool that can’t communicate with everyone is not very useful. In the same way that the phone app wouldn’t be much good if it could only call other iPhones: the iMessages app is crippled by not being able to send IMs to Android phones. Even if I want to send a message to someone with an iPhone, 90% of the time I still use WhatsApp, because that’s the app that is the most convenient means of messaging everyone.

iMessage would be much more useful if it could swap instant messages with Android phones.

As a communication tool, the iPhone does communicate. As a computer, the Mac computes. As a watch, the Apple Watch tells the time. If you need any of these items to do something not listed on the box, then you don't buy them. It's really not that hard to understand.

 

[AdamInKent]

As a communication tool, the iPhone does communicate. As a computer, the Mac computes. As a watch, the Apple Watch tells the time. If you need any of these items to do something not listed on the box, then you don't buy them. It's really not that hard to understand.

You are right, the iPhone does communicate, and it does it well: when running WhatsApp 😉

 

[Boeingfan]

You are right, the iPhone does communicate, and it does it well: when running WhatsApp 😉

Hahaha then there is no need for any change as a suitable solution has been found.

 

[AdamInKent]

Hahaha then there is no need for any change as a suitable solution has been found.

And from a user perspective you are right: I don’t need iMessage because WhatsApp is more useful. (But that doesn’t negate the fact that iMessage should be better.)

 

[Boeingfan]

And from a user perspective you are right: I don’t need iMessage because WhatsApp is more useful. (But that doesn’t negate the fact that iMessage should be better.)

Well, should be better applies to life; the US presidency, world famine, crime, politics, minimum wage….

 

[AdamInKent]

Well, should be better applies to life; the US presidency, world famine, crime, politics, minimum wage….

A better iMessage seems easily achievable compared to those 😉

 

[Downhilltenago]

Can anyone confirm if there link given to an Android phones expires or times out? Can I reuse the danger link someone sent again?