Ask Android @lemdro.id Deemo @bookwormstory.social 11 mo. ago

Silly question for those comming from a iPhone. Do you miss imessage or was it not that big of a deal?

Just kinda curious do you guys ever run into issues of lacking imessage (like your friends unwilling to use another app) or is it just a over blown issue.

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I've never used iMessage and don't know anyone else that does. Could someone explain why it seems to be such a big deal for some people? Especially considering all the news about Apple clamping down on it working on Android. The whole green vs blue bubble doesn't make sense to me personally.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
  
  This is how I learned about it. Afterwards, I talked to my teenage nieces who are both on Android and they confirmed that it's definitely a thing.
  
  I’ll give that a watch!
  
  Piped version for anyone interested: https://piped.video/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
  
  EDIT: very interesting watch!
- I'm not sure if your located in US, but an issue here is there a lot of people using iphones and a lot of them tend stick to the default messaging app and sometimes can rarley use 3rdparty messaging apps.
  
  For android users the gripe can be since people socially to use thirdparty messangers (its like trying to convince people to use signal over whatsapp). As a result sometimes a good portion of your chats can be stuck in sms.
  
  Group chats are a bit more of a pain since say all your friends are iphone users (and say they already have existing group chats) adding a android user will either not be possible or kick everyones chats back to sms. The biggest problem with the latter is carriers have different limits on number of participants for sms chats.
  
  For a lot of users it’s also about the image quality. A lot of group chats are used to share family photos, or friends parties, or vacations, etc… and inside an iMessage the photos all look great. High quality, shareable etc. Videos looks great and stream just fine. But once any member adds any non iPhone user the group chat gets changed to green and now all the sudden all the photos are grainy extreme low quality, basically not even viewable and videos won’t even share at all. So then people get pissed at the green person and just start a new chat without that person. It sucks.
  
  I guess that makes sense. I still find it strange since it seems to be only (or majority) a thing in the US.
It depends on where you are. Outside the USA, hardly anyone I know uses iMessage really. It's mostly WhatsApp everywhere else in the world.
I used whatsapp even on iPhone so it was a non-factor. I'm generally pretty mindful about not locking myself into walled gardens and would usually prefer even inferior 3rd party app to the polished proprietary one that I can't take with me when I leave.
I use signal I've actually put it onto other family members and such phones without their permission they haven't even noticed so far.

Imessage I wouldn't use even if I had an iPhone I actually did use to back in the iTunes days but when a single update took about 3 hours I switched.
It wasn't that big of a deal, if you do not like seeing green bubbles then you are not worth talking to.
I'd only ever had iPhones until about four years ago. Switching to Android wasn't a big deal for me since I was already using Signal to communicate with the three human beings with whom I regularly exchange text messages. I've probably opened the message app twice since the switch.
I'm almost 30 I barely text, none of my friends care what messaging app anyone uses and most use whatever the default is. I don't use any third party messenger, if I wanna share memes it's in discord. I guess that's a messenger though not attached to my phone number.
I disabled iMessage as soon as I figured out I could. It’s made zero difference in my life.
I am using Beeper Mini: it is kinda cool to be honest. If you care to try it, now is the best time, because it's free for a limited time. Of course, you need to use your apple id, and you can't use your number (but they are trying to fix it).

After it will be 2$ a month.
- I have tried it though I switched back to bluebubble and mac relay (until things cool down).
  
  Yes, It makes sense. I don't have a Mac at the moment, so I can't do the same as you 😁

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