• Poggervania
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    111 year ago

    Adding to this, people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

    We’re also apparently the largest userbase of iMessage, whereas the rest of the world has more sense to use third-party apps to talk to family and friends from around the world.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      people Some/many iPhone users in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

      Ftfy.

      Plus, the iMessage approach is the right answer. A single messaging app that will use a modern network-based comm channel with anyone who has the capability, with a fallback to SMS/MMS for those who don’t.

      Which Signal was doing until this year, unfortunately.

      • Joelk111
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        11 year ago

        I switched from Textra recently to get the benefits of RCS in Google Messages. I really wish more apps would(/could?) implement it than Google’s own.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

      Children. Children do that.

    • @SpaghettiYeti
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      11 year ago

      Never heard of this being a status symbol in the US… what a dumb notion.