Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
by blacksmith_tb on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:52PM
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Hmm, I have never heard anyone mention "knowing its... unencrypted" I doubt most iOS users would care about that, realistically. Note that the experience is bad in both directions (at least for me in Signal on Android I get to endure a lot of 'so and so loved whole-text-of-previous-message' instead of just a heart emoji - I see that GOOG has improved things Messages recently to parse those, at least)
Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
by vmception on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:51PM
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Right it’s just a convenient scape goat now, for an existing disdain against those people
Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
by howinteresting on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:50PM
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The thing is, zero people I regularly chat with (SF bay area) use iMessage. Most people in my US friend group use Signal, the rest use Facebook, and many of my international contacts use Whatsapp.
When this is not possible, it falls back to sending normal SMS, which can be read in plain text by third parties in the middle and has no encryption, when that occurs messages are shown within a "green bubble".
Therefore, messaging android users shows a "green bubble". People know its both an android user and unencrypted.
This also results in a worse messaging experience for the iOS users, as all of their other rich media is disabled and handicapped as long as that conversation involves an android user.