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While I see where you're going with that, in all fairness Apple has made an effort to shove Apple TV+ onto pretty much every streaming device, including non-App
by FreakyT 6y ago
While I see where you're going with that, in all fairness Apple has made an effort to shove Apple TV+ onto pretty much every streaming device, including non-Apple ones.
- theturtletalks 6y agoI was shocked when they made an Apple Music app for Android however subpar the app was.
- snazz 6y agoIt increases the number of people who get family Apple Music subscriptions, so it makes sense from a business standpoint. iMessage on Android, however, would kill the iPhone's biggest network effect.
- fastball 6y agoHonestly I don't feel like the iMessage network effect exists much at all anymore. Sure, I use it frequently for communicating with other iPhone people, but I just as easily communicate with others using WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal. In fact I generally prefer Telegram to Apple Messages.
- mhh__ 6y agoIs this an American thing? I've owned an iPhone and currently still on a increasingly crap android phone and I've never ever heard anyone get hazed for iMessage colours or similar.
- snazz 6y agoYep, it's totally an American thing. The rest of the world uses WhatsApp, so it's much less of a big deal. But people actually do leave other people out of group chats because it would downgrade the experience from iMessage to MMS. The green bubble is just a reminder of the terrible photo/video quality and poor group features.
- cgriswald 6y agoIt’s not just an American thing. It’s a younger-demo-American thing.
- snazz 6y agoOk, it’s a young, relatively privileged, “conformist” American thing. I think that just about covers the demographic.
- RubberShoes 6y agoIt's very likely I'm out of touch but from everyone and everything I see this is definitely an American thing. More than half the country is on some type of Apple device https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held-by-smartphone-platforms-in-the-united-states/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
- dash2 6y agoAre Americans still using MMS? Nobody in the UK uses it because of costs... are MMS free there? My impression is that WhatsApp is much better (and Wechat better still). Privacy questions aside.
- jcrites 6y agoAs an American, my entire circle communicates almost exclusively using services like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. iMessage shows up occasionally while forming initial connections, but I tend to move the conversation to one of these other services as soon as possible and the other party is almost always OK with that. (I do this in part because I don't regularly use my Mac and these other programs have web versions that can be used on all platforms including Windows PC.) If you're curious about demographics I'm in my mid 30s. My particular social group is not big into Facebook or Facebook Messenger (though I know they own WhatsApp) since we are techies and privacy-conscious. I'd rather have a 1on1 or small group chat than blast thoughts out into the ether when in that mode of communication. (Hacker News is different. It's cultivated, moderated, and oriented around exploring curiosity.)
- Gaelan 6y agoIt's worth nothing that Apple Music was a descendant of Beats Music, which had an Android app. Not sure if that's the reason.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoI'm not able to watch it on my phone or TV. I think they only support Amazon's Android device
- wvenable 6y agoI can watch it on my TV; an LG running WebOS.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoNice! I actually just checked and it seems like AppleTV works in Chrome on mobile now, so I could chromecast although there's a bit of a quality hit and it prevents me from playing around on my phone while watching
- phillipseamore 6y agoI use it on my Roku.