Comment by engeljohnb
2 years ago
Do you prefer not being able to send or recieve good quality images and videos to anyone using Android?
2 years ago
Do you prefer not being able to send or recieve good quality images and videos to anyone using Android?
> Do you prefer not being able to send or recieve good quality images and videos to anyone using Android?
Bit confused by this. What prevents me from sending or receiving good quality images to/from Android users?
When friends with iPhones send me images or videos using iMessage, they are very low-quality compared to what iPhone users receive. But when Android users send me the same, they are higher quality.
So I think the specific answer to your question is "iMessage and its lack of support for <protocol (RCS?)>".
> So I think the specific answer to your question is "iMessage and its lack of support for <protocol (RCS?)>".
But there are other ways to send images or arbitrary files. Why does iMessage need to support it?
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My understanding is that Apple wont add RCS support until end-to-end encryption is part of the RCS standard, which it currently isn't. And they wont use property add-ons such as what Google use for encryption.
Competitors stuffed around trying to build a competitor for over a decade and failed. Is that Apple's fault?
By default was missing from the sentence. You can do it with Whatsapp etc, but both you and the other party need to download a 3rd party app to do so.
> By default was missing from the sentence. You can do it with Whatsapp etc, but both you and the other party need to download a 3rd party app to do so.
So... what?
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Lack of iMessage support on Android.
> Lack of iMessage support on Android.
Plenty of other ways to send images.
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I guess there’s WhatsApp etc, but it’s not a great experience. And that’s in part due to the ecosystem. I can swipe 200 photos and send them to my wife - it shares them on my iCloud behind the scenes, and sends a link. Messages makes it seem like I’ve sent 200 full quality photos in an instant.
That’s hard to do without the vertical integration.
In the UK nearly everyone is using Whatsapp (or Signal, Telegram, even FB Messenger - never iMessage) and it's completely fine.
In the UK here, using WhatsApp regularly too, but the image quality is hopeless on it, and it won’t let you send many at a time.
If I can, I always use iMessage as the integration is just better - especially for media.
I don’t think you can send images to friends on Xbox from a PS5, no? How is that different?
That argument would make sense of iPhone couldn't send any messages at all to Android or call Android phones.
There's a reason Apple hasn't taken their garden wall that far, lmao. Same as being able to use "non Apple WiFi and Bluetooth devices".
Half the replies in this thread make me think they'd be happy if Apple restricted iPhone WiFi to only connecting to Apple APs becuz muh security, muh feature ecosystem
I do this every day using WhatsApp.