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>videos sent are reduced in quality by a significant degree What is the purpose of this? It's an issue solely with apple phones, people sending me videos from
by Zircom 5y ago
>videos sent are reduced in quality by a significant degree
What is the purpose of this? It's an issue solely with apple phones, people sending me videos from Android phones come through fine in full quality but anything from an apple device comes in looking like a Minecraft video.
>can't receive replies to specific comments
Apple actually started having their phones start sending texts with the reaction a few years ago, see this from my girlfriend earlier today
https://imgur.com/a/ttEhdN0 https://imgur.com/a/ttEhdN0
- dagmx 5y agoApple sticks with the more conservative MMS compliant video format. Google do some runarounds instead
- LexGray 5y agoMMS video and picture sizes are size constrained by the carrier in the profile. As many carriers already allow 4MB or even unlimited sizes it is purely an issue of carriers being cheap and lazy and leaving old limits on MMS. It would probably even be profitable for carriers as MMS already counts against data and RCS allows the larger sizes anyway. Yet Google prefers to roll yet another new protocol and complain instead of getting the carriers to just fix MMS configuration issues to solve the biggest ongoing complaints.
- ephimetheus 5y agoJust as a data point from outside the US: a 4MB MMS is about 5$ in Germany, even on a 30+$/mo base price package. Sending that to a group call multiplies the cost with the number of recipients. MMS (and in all likelihood RCS) is a complete non-starter for this market.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoRCS is an official standard. Eg. In Belgium it was implemented in 2020, 2 years ago.
- colinmhayes 5y agoThat picture is the description of a reaction, not a reply. And the description is much worse than having the reactions on the message like in iMessage.