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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by akho on Friday March 22, 2024 @04:43AM (#39788584)
Works fine over WhatsApp/Telegram/…. Not a technological limitation.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by c0pium on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:31AM (#39791119)
What do you think those have to do with SMS/MMS?
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by akho on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:34PM (#39792952)
The GP comment is about sending media between iPhone and Android, and claims that that is limited by MMS. That’s obviously not true. And has nothing to do with SMS/MMS.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by c0pium on Saturday March 23, 2024 @12:19AM (#39797419)
Huh? Sending MMS between any two devices is pretty clearly limited by MMS.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by akho on Saturday March 23, 2024 @02:49AM (#39797971)
Sending media isn't.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by c0pium on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:25PM (#39801529)
Other mechanisms of sending media are entirely irrelevant to a discussion about using MMS and the technical limitations of the MMS spec.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by akho on Saturday March 23, 2024 @06:02PM (#39803389)
We're not in that discussion.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by pmarreck on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:28AM (#39816023)
I was referring specifically to using the text messaging system, not the Internet.

You still cannot send livephotos via Whatsapp/Telegram. They convert to still photos. So you still lose something there.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by akho on Monday March 25, 2024 @11:27AM (#39817526)
MMS limitations are only relevant because Apple makes them relevant. I have never sent or received an MMS outside of the iMessage interoperability context. This is obviously deliberate.

You can send whatever you want through SMS, as a link.

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