Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013

Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by ihaveajob on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:20AM (#26969667)

In my case I don't care for the green/blue bubble divide, EXCEPT that I have a limited SMS plan and every time someone messages me it potentially costs me $0.10. That is not that significant until someone sends a series of short messages that could have been bundled into one, and I can't help but think "this person just cost me the price of a coffee".

It's not even Apple's fault, but rather AT&T's confusing and expensive billing options. I could also upgrade to an unlimited messaging plan, but 90% of the billing cycles I'd be overpaying.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:43PM (#26976529)

Check out some MVNO's such as Red Pocket Mobile, or US Mobile. If you don't have heavy data usage, plans can be extremely cheap.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by ihaveajob on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:26PM (#26986264)

Thanks for the tip. I'm looking at it right now. I feel like such a fool :).

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by cglong on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:26PM (#26973750)

We switched from AT&T to T-Mobile years ago and have had a great experience.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:10PM (#26974880)

They added a data plan to my bill when I bought my first iPhone... it wasn't the $10 a month, it was the disrespectfulness of "you can't, we're forcing you to".

Switched to T-Mobile that same week.

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