>send a video and the quality will be crap Isn’t this because sms doesn’t send high quality photos/videos? With imessage you get full quality images, it’s very

>send a video and the quality will be crap Isn’t this because sms doesn’t send high quality photos/videos? With imessage you get full quality images, it’s very nice. It’s also encrypted. >Not that we couldn't all just switch to some third party app (or hangouts even), and then we'd all have a comparable experience Which one? Whatsapp and messenger compress images, fairly significantly. Messenger is unencrypted by default. Whatsapp is encrypted, but you have to give facebooks your contacts, and metadata on the convos, which gives away a lot of info. I use both, and whatsapp does have some better features (voice notes are better, as is search), but I prefer imessage for the image quality and encryption. I also trust apple better with the metadata.