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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by bdavbdav on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:11PM (#39783055)
I guess there’s WhatsApp etc, but it’s not a great experience. And that’s in part due to the ecosystem. I can swipe 200 photos and send them to my wife - it shares them on my iCloud behind the scenes, and sends a link. Messages makes it seem like I’ve sent 200 full quality photos in an instant.

That’s hard to do without the vertical integration.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by MrScruff on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:28PM (#39783962)
In the UK nearly everyone is using Whatsapp (or Signal, Telegram, even FB Messenger - never iMessage) and it's completely fine.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by bdavbdav on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:58PM (#39784324)
In the UK here, using WhatsApp regularly too, but the image quality is hopeless on it, and it won’t let you send many at a time.

If I can, I always use iMessage as the integration is just better - especially for media.

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