← Back to context Comment by cdrnsf 1 month ago My family has made it clear that I need to be available on iMessage or I'd be right there with you. 14 comments cdrnsf Reply asdff 25 days ago Why? There is literally no difference. imessage is seamless with sms and mms. 10729287 25 days 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. asdff 25 days ago I'm in group chats with android users and it works fine. "10729287 liked $message" is about the only difference as far as I can tell. 1 reply → drnick1 1 month 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 1 month 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 25 days 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. 3 replies → drnick1 1 month ago Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix. 3 replies →
asdff 25 days ago Why? There is literally no difference. imessage is seamless with sms and mms. 10729287 25 days 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. asdff 25 days ago I'm in group chats with android users and it works fine. "10729287 liked $message" is about the only difference as far as I can tell. 1 reply →
10729287 25 days 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. asdff 25 days ago I'm in group chats with android users and it works fine. "10729287 liked $message" is about the only difference as far as I can tell. 1 reply →
asdff 25 days ago I'm in group chats with android users and it works fine. "10729287 liked $message" is about the only difference as far as I can tell. 1 reply →
drnick1 1 month 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 1 month 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 25 days 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. 3 replies → drnick1 1 month ago Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix. 3 replies →
TheDong 1 month 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 25 days 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. 3 replies → drnick1 1 month ago Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix. 3 replies →
asdff 25 days 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. 3 replies →
drnick1 1 month 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.
I'm in group chats with android users and it works fine. "10729287 liked $message" is about the only difference as far as I can tell.
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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.
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Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix.
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