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Comment by saagarjha

6 years ago

As has been mentioned many times in the other comments, those force you to download something, perhaps make an account, make sure everyone has it…whereas 90% of the people might already have an iPhone, which might be better than the number for anything else.

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Larrikin  6 years ago

I'd argue that that is irrelevant. What's the point in having anything other than a flip phone if you refuse to download apps. It's not a barrier to entry in every other case and it's never been a barrier to entry with my friends.

  • bobthepanda  6 years ago

    Why would you download an app for the basic functionality of a phone? Texting is an integral part of phones and I haven't met a person in the US without unlimited texting in years.

    I know a lot of friends who use WeChat to avoid things like international texting rates, but Americans talking to Americans generally do not need this.

    • recursive  6 years ago

      > Why would you download an app for the basic functionality of a phone?

      Having a blue circle is not the basic functionality of texting. People here are talking about fancy facetime stuff, like group names, and reactions.

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ta17711771  6 years ago

> 90% of the people might already have an iPhone

85%+ of the world's on Android, think outside your social circle =]

  • oarsinsync  6 years ago

    The whole point is to be about your social circle. If 90% of my social circle is on iPhone, they're on iMessage.

    What the rest of the world outside of my social circle does isn't really relevant to my conversations inside my social circle.

    I've run up against this reality multiple times. I personally prefer signal & whatsapp for group chats than iMessage. If only because I can mute them and not get an annoying red bubble telling me about the hundreds of messages I'm trying to not react to in real time when I'm busy.