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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
by ehsankia 9y 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 9y agoFrom 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 9y agoEnd 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 9y agoTyping indicators too.
- olliej 9y agoThere 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.