Why not just use whatsapp?
Re:Beeper – Moving Forward
by stackskipton on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:07PM
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Because in US, it's just not a common application everyone has so you get a ton of "I don't have whatsapp, just text me!" from friends.
Re:Beeper – Moving Forward
by standardUser on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:52PM
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I've gotten almost everyone I know to use WhatsApp. Not switch necessarily, but use. There's only a few stragglers left. It's not a hard sell, at least in a big city where you're bound to know a lot of foreigners or people with foreign friends/family, so adoption starts well above zero.
The other replies already brought up that WhatsApp is not common in the US, but I'll also add that if your beef with iMessage is the evil corporate overlord, moving to WhatsApp kinda seems like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
No reason not to except it's just not very big in the US.
Re:Beeper – Moving Forward
by rootusrootus on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:20PM
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Good grief, if I were ranking corporations by trust, I'm definitely not switching from Apple to Facebook of all things.
Re:Beeper – Moving Forward
by inferiorhuman on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:05PM
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Pictures look awful,
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018832773-Tw...
> videos look worse.
Same as above.
> Read receipts don't work
MMS read receipts have been a thing since at least 2004. Wanna bet your carrier still doesn't support them?
You can't leave a green bubble chat. You can't send messages from your computer or non-iPhone devices (Apple has message forwarding, but it's unreliable). Pictures look awful, videos look worse. Read receipts don't work. Tapbacks/emoji/stickers/memoji/etc don't work. It's a drag to remember all these limitations.
I grudgingly got an iphone in 2019 for work. I no longer work there but now I'm locked into blue bubble chats with family. I've been trying to use Beeper to solve this it's not reliable enough yet.
(if RCS wasn't such a dog's breakfast, I might make more of an effort. Even when Messages supports RCS, the experience will still suck)