Meet iPager - Help Apple #GetTheMessage
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Get ready for a new era in communication (again).iPager is a device that uses outdated messaging tech, like Apple uses when texting with Android. It comes wi...

I’m not a fan of the “war” between Android and Apple when it comes to SMS/texting. The rest of the world doesn’t use SMS/RCS/iMessage as much as WhatsApp and the like, so the US is pretty much lagging behind everyone else on this anyway.

That being said, I have to admit Android did a good job with this!

    • tal
      6•1 year ago

      Open source community have their own chat system since 2014 (Matrix).

      I think that IRC is kind of the original open chat system.

      EDIT:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

      IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science. Jarkko intended to extend the BBS software he administered, to allow news in the Usenet style, real time discussions and similar BBS features.

    • PolarEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Google Messages has been around since 2016, and Google has been shutting down their other apps and porting the features over to Google Messages. Google has shown they’re dedicated to RCS, and have not displayed any signs of shutting down Google Messages.

      It’s constantly being updated to add features, like actually implementing iMessage reactions. When an iOS user sends a reaction, it converts it to an actual reaction on the Android side. When an Android user sends a reaction to an iOS user, it just says “x liked this message”. Google is doing what they can to make the experience the best.

      From your 2012 timeline of iMessage, that’s only 4 years after Apple.

    • @9point6English
      3•1 year ago

      FWIW, and I’m still a bit sore that hangouts replaced it, but Google talk was around for a fair while and was based on XMPP