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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by anonymouse008 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:28PM (#29857766)
Communicating with likes, exclamations and loves is most annoying with an Android in the bunch —

iMessage cleverly quotes the whole message you liked, which contextually is required, and doubly grinds the conversation to content mulch

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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by samhw on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:34PM (#29857833)
I'm going to make the slightly conspiracistic speculation that Apple may be well aware of this effect.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by strombofulous on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:07PM (#29858140)
Probably, at the very least they're confirmed to be aware of the network effects of the ecosystem (imessage is also specifically called out) https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1463558823109660677
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by e_y_ on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:45AM (#29861869)
iOS users see those too in SMS mode? In that case the Android users might actually have the cleaner experience after the latest update: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/google-messages-upda...

I get the impression that even without RCS, Apple could have done more to keep the experience usable for the iOS users in SMS fallback mode.

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