Comment by cdrnsf 15 hours ago My family has made it clear that I need to be available on iMessage or I'd be right there with you. 11 comments cdrnsf Reply asdff 10 hours ago Why? There is literally no difference. imessage is seamless with sms and mms. 10729287 2 minutes ago Except group chat. And RCS couldn’t be installed on a custom rom as Google took over the protocol and locked user.Message is the only thing preventing me to switch of iPhone, as lineage or graphene will require installing WhatsApp, which is a big No. drnick1 14 hours ago iPhones default to sending plain old texts to non-Apple devices so it's hardly an issue unless you don't have a phone number. TheDong 13 hours ago iMessage and RCS have some very different affordances, and apple keeps it that way to keep people walled into the system.Most notably, a single non-iMessage member in a group chat will degrade the experience for everyone significantly.It's very much an issue in the US. asdff 10 hours ago By "degrade the experience" you mean you get a text that says "TheDong liked $message." The horror! Maybe people will go back to just sending a thumbs up emoji. 2 replies → drnick1 13 hours ago Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix. 3 replies →
asdff 10 hours ago Why? There is literally no difference. imessage is seamless with sms and mms. 10729287 2 minutes ago Except group chat. And RCS couldn’t be installed on a custom rom as Google took over the protocol and locked user.Message is the only thing preventing me to switch of iPhone, as lineage or graphene will require installing WhatsApp, which is a big No.
10729287 2 minutes ago Except group chat. And RCS couldn’t be installed on a custom rom as Google took over the protocol and locked user.Message is the only thing preventing me to switch of iPhone, as lineage or graphene will require installing WhatsApp, which is a big No.
drnick1 14 hours ago iPhones default to sending plain old texts to non-Apple devices so it's hardly an issue unless you don't have a phone number. TheDong 13 hours ago iMessage and RCS have some very different affordances, and apple keeps it that way to keep people walled into the system.Most notably, a single non-iMessage member in a group chat will degrade the experience for everyone significantly.It's very much an issue in the US. asdff 10 hours ago By "degrade the experience" you mean you get a text that says "TheDong liked $message." The horror! Maybe people will go back to just sending a thumbs up emoji. 2 replies → drnick1 13 hours ago Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix. 3 replies →
TheDong 13 hours ago iMessage and RCS have some very different affordances, and apple keeps it that way to keep people walled into the system.Most notably, a single non-iMessage member in a group chat will degrade the experience for everyone significantly.It's very much an issue in the US. asdff 10 hours ago By "degrade the experience" you mean you get a text that says "TheDong liked $message." The horror! Maybe people will go back to just sending a thumbs up emoji. 2 replies → drnick1 13 hours ago Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix. 3 replies →
asdff 10 hours ago By "degrade the experience" you mean you get a text that says "TheDong liked $message." The horror! Maybe people will go back to just sending a thumbs up emoji. 2 replies →
drnick1 13 hours ago Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix. 3 replies →
Why? There is literally no difference. imessage is seamless with sms and mms.
Except group chat. And RCS couldn’t be installed on a custom rom as Google took over the protocol and locked user.
Message is the only thing preventing me to switch of iPhone, as lineage or graphene will require installing WhatsApp, which is a big No.
iPhones default to sending plain old texts to non-Apple devices so it's hardly an issue unless you don't have a phone number.
iMessage and RCS have some very different affordances, and apple keeps it that way to keep people walled into the system.
Most notably, a single non-iMessage member in a group chat will degrade the experience for everyone significantly.
It's very much an issue in the US.
By "degrade the experience" you mean you get a text that says "TheDong liked $message." The horror! Maybe people will go back to just sending a thumbs up emoji.
2 replies →
Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix.
3 replies →