Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013

Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by aryonoco on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:55AM (#26970078)

I'm in Australia, and here iPhones have about 50% of the smartphone market, with the other half being Android of course.

I obviously know many iPhone users, including my wife and many close friends. I know of no one who uses iMessage. Here everyone uses Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp (and to a lesser extent Telegram and Signal).

Is this iMessage fascinating a US thing? Why?

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by RichEO on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:57PM (#26974100)

I’m in Australia, and iMessage usage here is huge and I have to assume the reason you’re not aware of it is because you dont have an iPhone.

Everyone I know with an iPhone chooses iMessages for texts and group chats first, and only reverts to WhatsApp when someone on Android has to be involved.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by tobobo on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:59AM (#26970852)

In the US almost everyone uses SMS. iMessage uses the same app as SMS, changing the message type based on whether the recipient can accept iMessages. So, most iPhone-to-iPhone communication ends up being SMS because we don’t have to change what we’re used to.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by prepend on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:40PM (#26971343)

s/being SMS/being iMessage/

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by HWR_14 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:57PM (#26973444)

iMessage in the US took over before WhatsApp or Messenger landed. So it's still going strong based on that (although I wouldn't want to switch to a FB product, so I may be biased.) But SMSs are free and therefore the number of people who use SMS (or RCS, whatever it's followup is), is really high.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by asiachick on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:36PM (#26976489)

SMS is not free while traveling abroad. I know most people int he USA don't travel abroad but I do and is one reason I detest SMS. Further it's tied to my phone number, something I'd prefer not to give out.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by HWR_14 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:03AM (#26977315)

If you don't like SMS requiring people to know your phone number, wait until you hear how Signal and WhatsApp work.

iMessage also works abroad (in fact, I tend to use iMessage when abroad because it appears to US based iPhone customers identical to domestic texts.)

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