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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by Spivak on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:23PM (#33501116)
People for some reason like to harp on the whole green bubble thing when it’s not even the real issue. The lock-in is Facetime — there is zero answer for it on Android. It’s the default in my friend group for calling someone, we hold group hangouts in it.

Getting non-work people into a video call if you don’t have an iPhone is painful.

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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by DrBenCarson on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:36PM (#33501204)
FaceTime now allows people to join from a browser.
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by 1123581321 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:26PM (#33501135)
You can generate a web URL now once the call has started and send it to PC/Android users. It’s far from a first class solution, of course.
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by n0tth3dro1ds on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:41PM (#33501243)
I’m still shocked that they added this. It actually made the UX worse for people that only typically talk to other iPhone users. The entire existence of non-ephemeral call links / lobbies is confusing if you never have to share them and are just trying to call an iPhone user directly. And it’s such a prominent part of the new FaceTime UI instead of something that they could’ve hid in an options menu.
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by Mikeb85 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:47PM (#33501278)
> Getting non-work people into a video call if you don’t have an iPhone is painful.

Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp both have video calling...

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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by isatty on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:46AM (#33502039)
Both suck and have way worse video/audio quality than Facetime. That and I don't want to use Facebook.
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by paganel on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:47AM (#33502042)
Video-calling my friends and acquaintances would be seen as totally creepy, it's text all the way. Phone calls in case of a real emergency (and for some work tasks, unfortunately), but otherwise it's text-only.

In case you have lots of information to share you can also leave a recorded voice-message via WhatsApp, but that's all done in a asynchronous way, i.e. the person receiving the recorder voice-message can listen to it whenever he/she feels like it.

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