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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by ThunderSizzle on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:16PM (#29858240)
My wife uses iPhone, and whenever she sends stuff, it comes over as crap.

So it goes both ways. Maybe you should get an android instead? Or you can continue being snobby about Apple and Google being companies that want closed gardens.

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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by hedgehog on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:01PM (#29859055)
The real villain here is the carriers who did not provide the infrastructure for large MMS attachments. If there was a widely supported standard Apple would probably implement it, instead the standard limit is 1MB or something so videos will just generally suck.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by kcb on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:22AM (#29860435)
RCS is the infrastructure to allow larger attachments. Apple is the only one at fault here for not implementing it.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by hedgehog on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:37AM (#29860530)
RCS is pretty meh technically and not widely supported, why would Apple take on the extra complexity? They can barely make their own apps work as it is.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by PickledHotdog on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:47AM (#29862152)
Ah, widely supported standards like the various USB charging standards that Apple so famously adopted
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