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speaking of alternatives, what brand do people hate that actually has a decent alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know people prefer to complain instead of act, but what is something people don't like but has an alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not an unfair complaint against Apple, but ignores Google's/Android's problematic "support" for RCS, and in this context of this comment seems to imply that What'sApp isn't "closed" like iMessage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's true. Pretty much every messenger has that issue, Signal, Telegram, etc. Ideally there would be an open standard like email, SMS and you could choose your preferred app and have cross messaging and group chats.

RIM made a similar play when they kept BBM closed to their phones and it backfired but Apple seem to have the opposite effect from keeping it all in house.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm certainly not trying to be an Apple apologist here, as iMessage has plenty to critique. But it bears consideration that iMessage falling back to SMS is a certain amount of openness, is it not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they are both essentially doing the same thing (iMessage and RCS using Google messages app), default to proprietary message, SMS back up.

Maybe the telecoms industry needs to get involved with moving on the standard. Although, when the created MMS it was (and still is) priced out of being useable.

Back when WhatsApp charged an annual fee you could get a 1 year subscription for about the same cost as 1 MMS picture message

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just thought I’d come back to share this if you haven’t already seen it. They’re at it again!

https://lemmy.world/post/976234