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I have never had an issue with messaging anyone in iMessage, regardless of what platform they are using. Serious question: is there something I am missing out on with iMessage that warrants investigating alternatives?
That's interesting about the reactions. I'm an Android (Pixel) user, and I swear when using the standard SMS app on my phone, from some iOS users I see their reactions as an emoji, while from others it does the "[user] liked your message" thing. Could it also be related to the version of iOS that's being used on the other end?
So.. What your telling us is that it's bad. Not good.
because incompatible. It won't work on any device. Except those of that cult. That cult whose leader killed himself after magically getting a a new liver somewhere in Asia.
You know, donor organs for which there are waiting lists of months and months.
Which was totally not weird and surely 100% legal and all. Just fine.
The ability to message people who don't own the same phone as you.
I’m not sure why you think I can’t do that.
iMessage can only send SMS messages to non Apple phones, which suck. And if you have friends in other countries get crazy expensive and suck even more.
I actually had no idea anyone still charged money for SMS
Also if you're in another country almost everyone charges for roaming sms but you can use messaging apps on WiFi for free.
You also cannot call someone who has a different name or model phone as you.
If you don't have a blue bubble on your friends phones, they will bully you until you take an AR-15 to school and kill everyone.
Either that, or suicide. Blue bubbles are a leading cause of suicide among tweens and teens in the US.
I have Andriod and my wife's got iPhone. IMessages don't deliver.. or deliver hours later. Images don't make it.. or make it xna they are potato.
You aren’t sending iMessages. You’re sending text messages, and vice versa. Old school SMS and MMS (from the days of the first cameraphones…the standard hasn’t changed much since then) are the best common language between your phones.
Google/Android support RCS, the open modern protocol to replace SMS/MMS, and Apple is being sluggish to implement. Apple also supports iMessage, the default enhanced language to replace SMS/MMS, but that’s a closed protocol, and as such only supports Apple.
Sent from wefwef for iOS, but I’d still say Apple are the assholes here. The only reason I even have a damn iPhone is because most of the people I exchange pictures/videos with, and the people they exchange pictures and video with, happen to use iPhones. So there’s no incentive for all of them to switch to a third-party platform for just me.
My mom had the same problem. She has a 6 year old iPhone and sometimes my messages are delivered days after I send them. Happened a lot last year...