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Comment by maest

2 years ago

> that person will limit the messaging functionality

Don't have an iPhone -- what functionality do they limit?

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davidmurdoch  2 years ago

The person not using iMessage doesn't limit anything, in most cases, now that RCS is a thing on most Androids. Apple is the one that breaks the experience for everyone and then implies it was the non-iMessage user.

msdrigg  2 years ago

- reacting to messages/replying to messages

- sending messages over data (obviously)

  • __MatrixMan__  2 years ago

    questions: "reacting to messages"

    • johnnyanmac  2 years ago

      it's most similar to upvoting, but with more emoji. So imagine if HN had an upvote on IOS, but instead on android it left a full message saying

      >__MatrixMan__ reacted to this comment with "Upvote"

      Much clunkier. his was fixed with RCS, fortunately, but that was the norm for some decade or so when talking with iPhones.

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RussianCow  2 years ago

The main thing I miss about having an iPhone is the ability to send full resolution pictures and videos over iMessage. In practice, SMS and MMS are seriously limited in the size of files they can send.

  • davidmurdoch  2 years ago

    Do you not have Android with RCS?

    • RussianCow  2 years ago

      That won't do anything for Android-to-iPhone messages until Apple implements RCS. Almost all of my friends use iPhones.

      As an aside: I actually don't have RCS on my Android phone because I run LineageOS without any Google apps, and apparently Google hasn't added an API for RCS, so there are no open source alternatives to the Google Messages app if you want support for it. (Please, correct me if I'm wrong!)

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