• Eager Eagle
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    cause of lazy iOS users that can’t be bothered to use anything else

    • Jeena
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      -141 year ago

      Then why are we shaming Apple and not the iOS users? I think Apple is totally reasonable here.

        • HeartyBeast
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          91 year ago

          The default messaging protocol is SMS. Unless you are talking with another Apple user

          • @Eldritch
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            41 year ago

            I can send pictures and video over SMS that are viewable anywhere. An iMessage user can only send a patch of 64 color changing macro blocks with some audio. While it’s technically true it’s the default. it’s purposefully degraded to the point of unusability.

            • HeartyBeast
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              21 year ago

              Really? That seems odd. I’ve never had a problem sending reasonable quality photos to Android users and I can’t see a business reason why Apple would degrade image sending purposefully- it would drive its own users to get third party apps.

              • @paintbucketholder
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                11 year ago

                I can’t see a business reason why Apple would degrade image sending purposefully- it would drive its own users to get third party apps.

                Depends on what the majority of people are using.

                In markets where iPhone users are not in the majority, that’s exactly what’s happening: iPhone users are switching to third party apps.

                If iPhones users are in the majority, though, then people will just default to iMessage, and non-Apple phones get associated with poor messaging quality. Which creates social pressure for non-iPhone users to buy an iPhone.

                So it makes perfect business sense for Apple to degrade the messaging quality when a non-Apple phone joins the conversation.

                • HeartyBeast
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                  21 year ago

                  I don’t think that’s correct - and I can’t find anything that substantiates the claim with a quick Google. Source?

              • @Eldritch
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                11 year ago

                The photos are less the issue than videos. But they definitely reduce the size of them far more than other clients do. At least for non iPhone/ iMessage users. It gets so bad that family doesn’t share videos with many of us anymore because of how difficult it is to use something other than iMessage. Or Facebook. But that’s a whole other problem.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          I am not an Apple fanboy at all, I have used iPhones for work previously.

          RCS debuted three years before iMessage, Apple developed iMessage because no one could get RCS standards together. We still don’t have this, Google has theirs, Samsung has another. Not all manufacturers support it and neither do all carriers. In my country it does not exist.

          I use SimpleX, but when I used a company iPhone, iMessage worked very well, and it worked everywhere regardless of carrier. RCS does not 15 years after its introduction.

          None of this is to say there should not be interoperability, clearly there should be. Historically at least, the blame lies with Google and mobile carriers.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            I’m not letting Google off the hook, but Apple could also open the standard for iMessage and bypassed the whole problem. But they’d rather lock in customers than allow everyone to communicate securely and effectively.

        • Otter
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          21 year ago

          More marketing would be nice

          As for features, an easy remote backup solution (similar to be bettet than WhatsApp) is the big one for me. Especially on iOS

        • Jeena
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          -11 year ago

          I’m not sure about Signal being the one, then we just give the power from one company (Apple) to another (Signal). If we want to improve then we should push open protocols where people can host their own infrastructure.

          • Eager Eagle
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            Ideally, I agree. In practice, until federation / decentralization is completely transparent to the end user (unless they choose otherwise), it’ll never be adopted at a large scale. IMO that’s one of the main obstacles of Lemmy, Mastodon, and others.

            Signal is only relatively popular among the privacy-respecting options because setting it up is as easy as setting up WhatsApp. Just by adding a “choose your instance” step, you can cut your user base by an order of magnitude. And that’s not mentioning the quality of service, which is much more achievable on a centralized platform, whether that’s in terms of feature parity, uptime, bug fixes, or cross-platform support.

      • HeartyBeast
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        71 year ago

        Message works, it’s seamless and does a good job. Sure I’ll change to something else if I need to send images or group chat with Android uses, but in the UK that generally means WhatsApp, which I am definitely not keen on.

      • Alto
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        -31 year ago

        There is absolutely nothing reasonable with using an inferior and outdated standard compared to what literally everybody else uses.