Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by hot_gril on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:39PM
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There are people who get iPhones just for iMessage. They don't want to be the one person who puts the entire group chat into "green bubble" mode. People accuse Apple of doing this intentionally, but you know, it's not their fault SMS is terrible; even Android users tend to use WhatsApp or something for group chats.
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Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by MBCook on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:49PM
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So I totally understand that. But does that rise to the level of “I’m a better person than you”?
I guess I haven’t heard it put that way.
Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by hot_gril on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:14AM
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I know it was a thing in middle school, and I'll bet some people never grew out of it. I've never heard an adult directly say that having an iPhone makes you better, but I have seen groups exclude people based essentially on income, and none of those people would be caught holding an Android phone.
It's dumb, I hate smartphones.
Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by arvinsim on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:27AM
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At least WhatsApp can be used in iOS.
Can iMessage be used in Android? No.
Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by hot_gril on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:58PM
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I think the SMS fallback makes this fair. Apple saw how bad SMS is, they made a better replacement with automatic fallback to the more open standard of SMS, and I don't see why it's their job to give the upgraded mode to everyone for free.
They even put early effort into making Macs send/receive SMS via the iPhone. Google didn't do something similar until recently, or did they, hard to tell with their chat app naming.