Sometimes it's also good to stop worshiping trillion dollar companies who abuse their market dominance.

While tech-literate Apple users couldn't tell the difference, their images and videos were sent in potato quality to non-Apple devices. So while technically, they could communicate with non-Apple users, it was a bad experience for anyone not in "walled garden".

p.s Not taking features put out by Apple at face-value doesn't mean I didn't read the article.