Lee DunaApple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
AvitldWhat’s the point of even using iMessage when there’s so many better options for messaging.
DominusOfMegadeusI have never had an issue with messaging anyone in iMessage, regardless of what platform they are using. Serious question: is there something I am missing out on with iMessage that warrants investigating alternatives?
SnekeyesI have Andriod and my wife’s got iPhone. IMessages don’t deliver… or deliver hours later. Images don’t make it… or make it xna they are potato.
You aren’t sending iMessages. You’re sending text messages, and vice versa. Old school SMS and MMS (from the days of the first cameraphones…the standard hasn’t changed much since then) are the best common language between your phones.
Google/Android support RCS, the open modern protocol to replace SMS/MMS, and Apple is being sluggish to implement. Apple also supports iMessage, the default enhanced language to replace SMS/MMS, but that’s a closed protocol, and as such only supports Apple.
Sent from wefwef for iOS, but I’d still say Apple are the assholes here. The only reason I even have a damn iPhone is because most of the people I exchange pictures/videos with, and the people they exchange pictures and video with, happen to use iPhones. So there’s no incentive for all of them to switch to a third-party platform for just me.
My mom had the same problem. She has a 6 year old iPhone and sometimes my messages are delivered days after I send them. Happened a lot last year…
The ability to message people who don’t own the same phone as you.
I’m not sure why you think I can’t do that.
You also cannot call someone who has a different name or model phone as you.
Nia [She/Her]Mainly, when you’re messaging an iPhone user you get the benefits that it provides: less compressed images and videos, read receipts, more reliable messaging (you won’t see message “delivered” unless it actually reaches the person you’re messaging), encryption, etc.
When messaging someone without using iMessage such as when texting an Android user from iPhone or vice verca, it’s going directly over the data carrier networks, which heavily compresses images and videos, so if an Android user sends an iPhone user a video file directly, it ends up very blurry if it’s longer than 30 seconds-a minute or so, images are okay most of the time if they aren’t huge or detailed. You also don’t get read receipts on either end. The text also aren’t encrypted so the data provider and anyone who spoofs a cell tower can read all messages
iPhone to iPhone/iPad/Mac works great as you said though, but I actively use something else like Signal, Discord, or Telegram when messaging my friends who don’t have one because it’s a lesser experience on both ends.
The issue isn’t that iMessage is bad, it’s really good imo, it’s just that iMessage makes messaging people who don’t have iMessage worse by comparison, if it were opened up then everyone could text everyone without anyone missing out.
ThePowerOfGeekThat’s interesting about the reactions. I’m an Android (Pixel) user, and I swear when using the standard SMS app on my phone, from some iOS users I see their reactions as an emoji, while from others it does the “[user] liked your message” thing. Could it also be related to the version of iOS that’s being used on the other end?
Maybe, I’m not sure exactly how they implemented it but I think for Google Messages it just reads the text and tries to stick the emote from it on the text that it’s quoting, so if there’s ever a mismatch on the quote for some reason or if older iOS versions word it differently that might be what’s causing that
So… What your telling us is that it’s bad. Not good.
because incompatible. It won’t work on any device. Except those of that cult. That cult whose leader killed himself after magically getting a a new liver somewhere in Asia.
You know, donor organs for which there are waiting lists of months and months.
Which was totally not weird and surely 100% legal and all. Just fine.
If you don’t have a blue bubble on your friends phones, they will bully you until you take an AR-15 to school and kill everyone.
Either that, or suicide. Blue bubbles are a leading cause of suicide among tweens and teens in the US.