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You could just ask everyone to install Signal or even WhatsApp? They're friends of yours, so it seems like the least they can do for you.

• Kye 5y ago
  Either you have especially pliant friends, or you've never tried to do this.
  • wallacoloo 5y ago
    what's the alternative? of all the friend groups i've had only _one_ has ever been among a group that has all iphones. i'm having a hard time imagining that, in a world of 70% android share, finding yourself in a group that can actually make use of the iOS-only stuff could ever be the _norm_? like, the statistics of this just don't make sense to me unless the OS distribution is _extremely_ skewed along a handful of metrics and you find yourself at an extreme end of multiple of those.
  • howinteresting 5y ago
    I guess "pliant" is one way to describe being generally open to new things.
  • cookie_monsta 5y ago
    Agreed. It's not just convincing all (or even most) of your friends, it's getting them to convince all their friends to switch (and so on)
    • howinteresting 5y ago
      It is OK to use multiple apps to chat with your friends.
      • cookie_monsta 5y ago
        Sure... until the day you want to set up a group chat
        • howinteresting 5y ago
          In this context it was just about having a group chat with your vacation friends.
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