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iPhone 12 Pro Max What’s so great about iMessage?

Barbareren said:
Well, it also makes sending and receiving pics and videos slower. WhatsApp lowers the resolution, but you won’t notice any difference on a phone screen, only on a computer. Besides, WhatsApp supports sending files up to 100MB and you can send full resolution photos by simply sending the photo as a file instead.
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As much as I use WhatsApp and appreciate it in allowing me to send media to my husband and dad for free, the way it downgrades the resolution is frustrating and noticeable. Also sending it as a file requires extra work because the photos and videos need to be saved a files before they can be sent. they can't be sent directly from the photos app. That again requires extra work and I am lazy lol
 
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akash.nu said:
Sorry I beg to differ. The picture quality from WhatsApp is frustratingly inferior to the real shots. I’ve experienced this on many occasions when people sent me pictures, to edit, on iMessage and I was horrified by the quality only to find out that they had downloaded from a different WhatsApp group.
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You’re right. I was wrong. I just tested it thoroughly, and the quality is worse. I honestly never noticed it before 🤷‍♂️ When I want to send high quality photos I normally use email...
 
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I will say that I wish I could see who has seen my message within a group message. That is one thing I like from signal and WhatsApp
 
dogslobber said:
It's not owned by Facebook.
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Yeah, it is...

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Sikh said:
TL;DR: iMessage is more than just blue bubbles :)
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Yes, those who can remember iMessage came out at a time when there were few messaging service around and took several steps to work. yahoo chat Remember that? iMessage blew sms out the water. Now it’s a lot better and even in some countries there are popular alternatives like messenger fb, wechat, and viber and whatsapp (particularly Asian countries you can’t communicate without 3rd party messaging) but for the USA, iMessage is great for iPhone users.
 
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ARizz44 said:
Id estimate 95% of my friends I text and all of the groups I’m in use iMessage. This makes sending things like videos and such so convenient because iMessage doesn’t compress them. Once a non iMessage person is in a group, it changes it to an SMS thread and the pics videos can look awful. I don’t know anyone personally who used WhatsApp or an alternative. So for me, iMessage is key.
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Hate it when that one guy has an android and turns it into a green sms bubble! I know first world problems.
 
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1rottenapple said:
Yes, those who can remember iMessage came out at a time when there were few messaging service around and took several steps to work. yahoo chat Remember that? iMessage blew sms out the water. Now it’s a lot better and even in some countries there are popular alternatives like messenger fb, wechat, and viber and whatsapp (particularly Asian countries you can’t communicate without 3rd party messaging) but for the USA, iMessage is great for iPhone users.
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I think iMessage is great regardless of country. I know my family in india use whatsapp because its universal and its what they are use to because iPhones aren't popular. I dont use any of the apps above because they all have privacy concerns. My parents use whatsapp to talk to family but I don't use anything but a simple calling card. They are the only people I actually use my phone as a phone for lol.

I think iMessage would be a lot more popular if it was available on other platforms or if iPhones were as cheap as some android devices. The cheapest device in india is equivalent to $85 and its a android device. SMS costs a lot of money still and is very unreliable versus third party apps that work on wifi and wifi is free no matter where you go.

Im glad third party apps are as popular as they are I just wish they werent so **** when it came to privacy. If telegram ever adds video, i think itll become a lot more popular in third world countries. I hope that happens cause then I can convince all of my family to use telegram. They care less about the app, they just want it to work and be easy
 
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Sikh said:
I think iMessage is great regardless of country. I know my family in india use whatsapp because its universal and its what they are use to because iPhones aren't popular. I dont use any of the apps above because they all have privacy concerns. My parents use whatsapp to talk to family but I don't use anything but a simple calling card. They are the only people I actually use my phone as a phone for lol.

I think iMessage would be a lot more popular if it was available on other platforms or if iPhones were as cheap as some android devices. The cheapest device in india is equivalent to $85 and its a android device. SMS costs a lot of money still and is very unreliable versus third party apps that work on wifi and wifi is free no matter where you go.

Im glad third party apps are as popular as they are I just wish they werent so **** when it came to privacy. If telegram ever adds video, i think itll become a lot more popular in third world countries. I hope that happens cause then I can convince all of my family to use telegram. They care less about the app, they just want it to work and be easy
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iPhones will never be that cheap to purchase... and putting iMessage on the Android platform, it will lose the security of end-to-end encryption. Apple will never do that.
 
3/4 of the people on my contact list use iPhones. I like the fact it is built in with end to end encryption. I felt secure discussing family issues with relatives using iMessage.
 
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1rottenapple said:
Yes, those who can remember iMessage came out at a time when there were few messaging service around and took several steps to work. yahoo chat Remember that? iMessage blew sms out the water. Now it’s a lot better and even in some countries there are popular alternatives like messenger fb, wechat, and viber and whatsapp (particularly Asian countries you can’t communicate without 3rd party messaging) but for the USA, iMessage is great for iPhone users.
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Don’t forget BBM.
 
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For me iMessage is just the messaging app I use for close family like my wife and both sets of our parents. Nearly all my friends and colleagues own iPhones but the messenger of choice seems to be WhatsApp and this has been the case since about 2012. I use it for business communication too.

With group messages I like how WhatsApp downscales much of the media shared and this saves storage until I go through and clear it out. iMessage is great when sharing family photos where you want to keep full resolution, so both have their pro’s.
 
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1rottenapple said:
Oh true. So maybe iMessage was influenced by BBM (exclusive platform) but of course blackberry couldn’t innovate out of iPhone and Android shadow and died.
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Blackberry just didn’t see all screen devices as threat until it was already too late and then they came up with crappy full screen devices.
 
I'm curious; why would anyone care if someone is sending from Android (green) or iPhone (blue)? [They're all clients to me. 😀]

EDIT: Just remembered: printing iMessage conversations as PDF to DEVONthink on the Mac to save them!! Wonderful timesaver.
 
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sgtaylor5 said:
I'm curious; why would anyone care if someone is sending from Android (green) or iPhone (blue)? [They're all clients to me. 😀]

EDIT: Just remembered: printing iMessage conversations as PDF to DEVONthink on the Mac to save them!! Wonderful timesaver.
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Because in iMessage chats you can send chat effects, play in message games, it’s E2E, encrypted, can be used without carrier signal, and you can send full resolution photos/videos. With sms you’re very limited in what you can do.
 
akash.nu said:
Blackberry just didn’t see all screen devices as threat until it was already too late and then they came up with crappy full screen devices.
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That’s certainly part of it, plus failure to land a mass market product plus Apple coming sideways into the market by user demand gave them a unique position to a APIs all the usual carrier influences on their products. No carrier branding, no carrier crap apps etc - but I’ll stop as I’m drifting OT :)
 
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