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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by pmarreck on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:27PM (#29860099)
> Android supports RCS, iMessage does not.

iMessage has existed in more or less its current form for over 10 years now. RCS took too long and basically gave this space to Apple. And Apple keeps adding features, such as bundling photos sent at once, showing where photos you have came from, and other things, not to mention things that STILL aren't on Android (nor whatsapp) like livephotos.

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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by cpuguy83 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:57PM (#29860305)
There is a standard that is significantly better than SMS and Apple has so far chosen to stay with SMS as the only fallback.

Blame Apple that talking to anyone not on iMessage sucks.

Also, the features you mention are all extremely new to iOS, I'm not sure what you mean by "still".

- Sent from my iPhone

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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by pmarreck on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:09PM (#29867827)
Livephotos are NOT new... 2015.

But sure, Apple could (maybe should) use RCS as a fallback instead of SMS.

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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by km3r on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:36PM (#29860163)
No one is saying apple needs to get rid of iMessage, just update the fallback from sms to rcs
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