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Comment by 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.

Those are all part of iMessage.

  • Thank you for making my point. iMessage is not texting. I'm responding to this.

    "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."

    • > Thank you for making my point. iMessage is not texting. I'm responding to this.

      To your average iOS user they are one and the same, which is why US iPhone users don't generally download secondary chatting apps unless they have to.

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