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The US had an early incumbent SMS culture that never gripped most other countries, so iMessage is here to stay. Outside the US I have friends in their 30s who
by hombre_fatal 5y ago
The US had an early incumbent SMS culture that never gripped most other countries, so iMessage is here to stay.
Outside the US I have friends in their 30s who have never even sent text message.
- garciasn 5y agoI love how we’re making a class war out of MMS and a variant of MMS that doesn’t require mobile networks to operate. Just send your fucking messages on your mobile devices and be done with it.
- kelnos 5y agoYeah, it's... pretty dumb, IMO. If we want to talk about technical issues, though, it's pretty stark. MMS delivery and message ordering is significantly less reliable than pretty much any OTT service out there. Message size limitations mean videos get recompressed to garbage when you send them. There are basically no add-on features, like reacting with emoji to messages, for example. The disappointing thing is that there's a solution to all of this: RCS[0]. Android supports it, but Apple of course loves their iMessage walled garden and refuses to, even though RCS has end-to-end encryption now. iMessage may be technically superior in some ways, and RCS certainly has its issues, but personally I feel interop is much more important here. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
- throwawayboise 5y agoThis isn't true. SMS was wildly popular in other countries years before it took off here.