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I recently switched from iPhone to a Google Pixel 2 (Android) and I found the most annoying part was iMessage. Everything else was fairly easy to switch over. I

I recently switched from iPhone to a Google Pixel 2 (Android) and I found the most annoying part was iMessage. Everything else was fairly easy to switch over. I'm more than happy to never see iTunes again.

ehsankia 8y ago
As someone who has never used iMessage, can you expand on what specifically makes iMessage hard to leave? Do you lose your past conversations? Do you lose your contacts? Or is it simply that you lose the extra features and are back to simple base "sms"?
- c22 8y ago
  From experience, one thing that happens is any "text messages" from your friends who still have iphones get routed into some black hole until you visit a page on the Apple website and "reset your number".
- jsutton 8y ago
  End to end encryption, content rich messages, very fast, and it can be especially hard to leave if most of your friends that you talk to also have iMessage.
  - ec109685 8y ago
    Typing indicators too.
- olliej 8y ago
  There are a bunch of extra features vs sms (attachments, groups, actual encryption, that’s even end to end). I assumed android had similar but I can’t tell from things like the gchat news from last (?) week whether that’s true. For me (exclusive Apple product house) it’s useful that messages end of an every device - it’s useful when looking things up, and saves finding my phone when I’m working, etc. Also read receipts are useful - they’re opt in, but the useful when communicating with coworkers. Which also feeds into the ecosystem thing - if most people you talk to are also using iMessage you can get read receipts. This isn’t saying iMessage is flawless or superior to everything else - as I said before I don’t know the state of android messaging, so I just can’t really compare.
olliej 8y ago
Just to clarify, are you claiming iTunes isn’t the most amazing piece of software ever? ;) More seriously, are you talking the desktop app or the music player of the phone? (I’ve not found the phone version /that/ bad, but yeah desktop version remains terrible)
ec109685 8y ago
If you bought anything in iTunes, it is forever locked inside of it though. Otherwise, I agree.

ehsankia 8y ago

As someone who has never used iMessage, can you expand on what specifically makes iMessage hard to leave? Do you lose your past conversations? Do you lose your contacts? Or is it simply that you lose the extra features and are back to simple base "sms"?

c22 8y ago
From experience, one thing that happens is any "text messages" from your friends who still have iphones get routed into some black hole until you visit a page on the Apple website and "reset your number".
jsutton 8y ago
End to end encryption, content rich messages, very fast, and it can be especially hard to leave if most of your friends that you talk to also have iMessage.
- ec109685 8y ago
  Typing indicators too.
olliej 8y ago
There are a bunch of extra features vs sms (attachments, groups, actual encryption, that’s even end to end). I assumed android had similar but I can’t tell from things like the gchat news from last (?) week whether that’s true. For me (exclusive Apple product house) it’s useful that messages end of an every device - it’s useful when looking things up, and saves finding my phone when I’m working, etc. Also read receipts are useful - they’re opt in, but the useful when communicating with coworkers. Which also feeds into the ecosystem thing - if most people you talk to are also using iMessage you can get read receipts. This isn’t saying iMessage is flawless or superior to everything else - as I said before I don’t know the state of android messaging, so I just can’t really compare.

olliej 8y ago

Just to clarify, are you claiming iTunes isn’t the most amazing piece of software ever? ;) More seriously, are you talking the desktop app or the music player of the phone? (I’ve not found the phone version /that/ bad, but yeah desktop version remains terrible)

ec109685 8y ago

If you bought anything in iTunes, it is forever locked inside of it though. Otherwise, I agree.