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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

SMS doesn't handle pictures, videos, gifs, reactions, or group conversations. Things I use all the time. MMS handles some of that, but implementation varies greatly by carrier and device. If you want consistency of that functionality, you have to go with an app. Apple and Google have created replacements for SMS and MMS that could be the next version of "texting" but Apple refuses to let anyone else use theirs (iMessage) and Google has only half opened up theirs (RCS), so those don't really fix much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

(I guess I don't know the difference between SMS and MMS.)

I must be using MMS for texting. All of those features work for me and anyone I text with. The only issue I've ever had is imessage compressing videos to and from my android.

I still don't get it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This article does a pretty good job differentiating SMS, MMS, RCS, and iMessages