Comment by Workaccount2
2 years ago
Generally in the US, if you want to participate in friends and family group messages, it's either iPhone or be left out.
2 years ago
Generally in the US, if you want to participate in friends and family group messages, it's either iPhone or be left out.
This is hideous though. Why should someone's preference for a mobile phone, chosen for their convenience, hinder them from texting those they care about?
Because Apple makes sure that, in a messaging group, if a single user is not an iPhone, the whole group messaging is degraded.
Dark patterns that creates incentives for discrimination against non iPhone users.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39780085
Perhaps societal customs should change instead of infringing on the business practices (which don't violate a law).
The anticompetitive preference for internal apps though is pretty bad and I think Apple should be nailed on that, but they shouldn't be punished for creating a "better" (in quotes because I think Android is on the better standard for messaging) messaging experience.
This is my experience too. Either iPhone or find non-american friends.
That doesn’t sound like something that’s against the law. A company shouldn’t be punished based on their success, but if they violate a law or not.
There are dozens of other popular (group) messaging apps