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Why won't your hear from them again? Messages aggregates sms and iMessage. They'll fall back to sms without having to do anything. At most, you just need to dea

by dagmx 6y ago

Why won't your hear from them again? Messages aggregates sms and iMessage. They'll fall back to sms without having to do anything. At most, you just need to deactivate your iMessage when switching to Android. To the users there's no workflow difference

BoorishBears 6y ago
While I've never done this myself, there are people who avoid adding non-Apple users to group messages Mainly because the entire chat ends up being downgraded from iMessage to plain SMS, even if only a single non-Apple device joins
- xienze 6y ago
  > Mainly because the entire chat ends up being downgraded from iMessage to plain SMS, even if only a single non-Apple device joins Yep. Want to share a video in your group chat that includes a non-Apple user? Everybody gets an MMS that has a postage stamped-size, low framerate video.
  - altdatathrow 6y ago
    Hey, do you think they're still just goofing off? Or maybe it was treason and they're all going away for a very long fucking time.
    - xienze 6y ago
      Dude get a grip. You and a lot of other people didn't agree with my comment. I am once again going to report your behavior to the mods. Hope the ban is worth it. Seriously, the Orange Man with whom you are so thoroughly obsessed (I guess I'm #2 at the moment) will be gone in 11 days. Hopefully you can begin to regain your grip on reality.
      - altdatathrow 6y ago
        > I am once again going to report your behavior to the mods. Hope the ban is worth it. Unlike you, who are trying to negotiate a karma refund [1], I don't care about social media accounts nor points. What I do care about is treasonous pieces of shit like you whose continued rhetoric and kid gloves approach on places like HN allow your ilk to continue to fester, which builds up to what happened on Wednesday. Your kind needs to be called out repeatedly in every circle you exist within. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679787
        xienze 6y ago
        > What I do care about is treasonous pieces of shit like you whose continued rhetoric and kid gloves approach on places like HN allow your ilk to continue to fester, which builds up to what happened on Wednesday. This is your brain on leftism. Serious question, what were your feelings on the attempted storming of the White house last summer wherein the secret service rushed Trump to a bunker because they felt there was credible risk? Were you aghast at the treasonous behavior of those protestors or were you making "bunker bitch" jokes? I wonder.
        dang 6y ago
        Please stop posting flamewar comment and ideological battle comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and you've been doing it repeatedly. We ban such accounts, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.
        dang 6y ago
        We've banned this account for repeatedly and egregiously breaking the site guidelines. Creating accounts to abuse HN this badly will get your main account banned as well, so no more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Since it's unfortunately necessary to add these disclaimers: No, I'm not siding with your enemies. We'd ban any account that posted this way. Being right is no excuse to behave like this, and no matter how wrong or bad your enemies are, it doesn't give you the right to destroy the commons. It's not in your own interest to do that either, but that's another story.
pkulak 6y ago
I'm on an SMS thread with some iOS users. It's just a constant barrage of "someone laughed at an image", "someone liked [200 words of text]". And the best part is that Apple has flipped out and somehow assigned half the iOS participants to SMS instead of iMessage (I think because I do own several Macs/iPads and have an iMessage account, just not on my phone), so they're in the same hell that I am... and it's all my fault. Trust me, they're not eager to include me in the next conversation.

by dagmx 6y ago

BoorishBears 6y ago

While I've never done this myself, there are people who avoid adding non-Apple users to group messages Mainly because the entire chat ends up being downgraded from iMessage to plain SMS, even if only a single non-Apple device joins

xienze 6y ago
> Mainly because the entire chat ends up being downgraded from iMessage to plain SMS, even if only a single non-Apple device joins Yep. Want to share a video in your group chat that includes a non-Apple user? Everybody gets an MMS that has a postage stamped-size, low framerate video.
- altdatathrow 6y ago
  Hey, do you think they're still just goofing off? Or maybe it was treason and they're all going away for a very long fucking time.
  - xienze 6y ago
    Dude get a grip. You and a lot of other people didn't agree with my comment. I am once again going to report your behavior to the mods. Hope the ban is worth it. Seriously, the Orange Man with whom you are so thoroughly obsessed (I guess I'm #2 at the moment) will be gone in 11 days. Hopefully you can begin to regain your grip on reality.
    - altdatathrow 6y ago
      > I am once again going to report your behavior to the mods. Hope the ban is worth it. Unlike you, who are trying to negotiate a karma refund [1], I don't care about social media accounts nor points. What I do care about is treasonous pieces of shit like you whose continued rhetoric and kid gloves approach on places like HN allow your ilk to continue to fester, which builds up to what happened on Wednesday. Your kind needs to be called out repeatedly in every circle you exist within. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679787
      - xienze 6y ago
        > What I do care about is treasonous pieces of shit like you whose continued rhetoric and kid gloves approach on places like HN allow your ilk to continue to fester, which builds up to what happened on Wednesday. This is your brain on leftism. Serious question, what were your feelings on the attempted storming of the White house last summer wherein the secret service rushed Trump to a bunker because they felt there was credible risk? Were you aghast at the treasonous behavior of those protestors or were you making "bunker bitch" jokes? I wonder.
        dang 6y ago
        Please stop posting flamewar comment and ideological battle comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and you've been doing it repeatedly. We ban such accounts, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.
      - dang 6y ago
        We've banned this account for repeatedly and egregiously breaking the site guidelines. Creating accounts to abuse HN this badly will get your main account banned as well, so no more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Since it's unfortunately necessary to add these disclaimers: No, I'm not siding with your enemies. We'd ban any account that posted this way. Being right is no excuse to behave like this, and no matter how wrong or bad your enemies are, it doesn't give you the right to destroy the commons. It's not in your own interest to do that either, but that's another story.

pkulak 6y ago

I'm on an SMS thread with some iOS users. It's just a constant barrage of "someone laughed at an image", "someone liked [200 words of text]". And the best part is that Apple has flipped out and somehow assigned half the iOS participants to SMS instead of iMessage (I think because I do own several Macs/iPads and have an iMessage account, just not on my phone), so they're in the same hell that I am... and it's all my fault. Trust me, they're not eager to include me in the next conversation.