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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by d_watt on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:11PM (#24386100)
Maybe because SMS became very popular in the US, and iMessage originally was just an extension of SMS from a UX perspective, 2 years after iPhone launched. It added functionality and fixed issues with SMS (multi-part messages, images, etc). This led to the dislike of "green bubbles" because it meant you were forcing a degraded experience on the other person. That started a positive feedback loop for iMessage.

My understanding is SMS never got anywhere as popular in the EU.

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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:17PM (#24386149)
On the contrary, SMS was insanely popular in Europe before the smartphone revolution and before data plans were cheap just that people didn't want to lock themselves in with Apple's proprietary iMessage otherwise they couldn't talk to others who don't have iphones.
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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by GeekyBear on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:26PM (#24386223)
The Europeans tended to lock themselves into Blackberry Messenger for the same reason Americans initially locked themselves into iMessage.

At the time, the alternative was to either pay a per message fee or pay monthly for an unlimited text messaging plan.

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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:32PM (#24386283)
I never met teens in Europe who wanted to own a BlackBerry. Nokia were the craze then iPhones took over.
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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by GeekyBear on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:37PM (#24386315)
Did you not know a single teen in the UK during that period?

Unlimited messaging without extra fees was quite a draw.

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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:47PM (#24386382)
Unfortunately I didn't know any teens in the UK

Anyway, UK was/is a lot more aligned to the fads in the US than in continental Europe to which I was referring to since the UK is no longer in Europe ;) j.k.

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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by ulfw on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:47PM (#24388813)
Blackberry was never as popular in Europe as it was in the US.

Also unlimited messaging plans back then weren’t a thing in Europe yet either.

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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by HighChaparral on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:25PM (#24386210)
SMS was huge in the UK and Ireland from the early part of the century, and the operators absolutely gouged kids with their topup pricing.
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