Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure

Re:Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure by caskstrength on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:57AM (#30006867)

Is this an American thing to be so hung up on phone's builtin messaging software? Here in Eastern Europe everybody just use third-party messaging providers (Telegram and, unfortunately, Viber) that are available on every (major) platform.

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Re:Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure by zwkrt on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:51AM (#30007244)

The vast majority of people in the US don’t use a 3rd party app for messaging. Why this is I can only speculate. My guess is that we were marketed SMS as a “killer feature” of phones and phone plans during the pre-internet days of cell phones

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Re:Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure by h0nd on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:53AM (#30009595)

Here in Europe, SMS used to be so expensive that nobody used them anymore when alternatives such as WhatsApp came up. In the meantime unlimited SMS are included in most contracts at no extra cost (or no choice) and still very few people use it anymore.

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Re:Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure by CRConrad on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:02AM (#30024404)

Maybe in your corner of Europe. Must be a different one than mine.

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