Not really. They have ties to specific platforms, just that the platform is not tied to hardware. So it's either installing the app, or losing the connections, same as with the iPhone.
Friends will still talk to you. But they won't include you in group messages because apple purposely sabotages group messages with anyone outside the garden.
Unsurprisingly, a lot social planning and banter happens in those group messages.
Social pressure to use a particular phone and messaging app does not a monopoly make.
I'm sure you've seen this before, but only the US uses text messages any more.
The rest of the world is on cross platform apps and couldn't care less what their friends type from.
This lawsuit pertains to the US only...
Also, most of the US doesn't use text messages either, they use platform dependent iMessage. Hence the lock in.
They do on average, or they just think they're sending SMS messages that have somehow improved? :)
>couldn't care less what their friends type from.
Not really. They have ties to specific platforms, just that the platform is not tied to hardware. So it's either installing the app, or losing the connections, same as with the iPhone.
I don't know, I have like ... 4-5 "platforms" on my phone. Not counting iMessage.
It somehow was a lot easier than migrating my data to an Android phone, for example.
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If your friends won't talk to you because you have an Android phone, you don't actually have any friends.
Friends will still talk to you. But they won't include you in group messages because apple purposely sabotages group messages with anyone outside the garden.
Unsurprisingly, a lot social planning and banter happens in those group messages.