Reminds me of the time a few years ago when my mom had a problem: her 1 year old cheap Android phone wasn't reliably getting push notifications from LINE anymor

Reminds me of the time a few years ago when my mom had a problem: her 1 year old cheap Android phone wasn't reliably getting push notifications from LINE anymore. Opening the app would always catch it up, but if she forgot, then notifications could arrive hours or days later, or never. Changing settings to disable battery optimization made battery life worse as described, but didn't fix the notification problem. We switched the family to Signal, which helped for a bit since it's a lighter app, but less than 6 months later that started failing, too. The solution to this messaging problem was, in fact, to buy my mom a new phone (though it wasn't an iPhone, sorry Tim). The point of this story is that while I think the real solution to the reporter's problem is to get one of the many great messaging apps out there, I fundamentally disagree with the idea that we should just forget about having a real messaging standard. A lot of techies want phones to just be internet machines, but they do have some fundamental features that people rely on, namely calls and texts. Apple should remember that when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, he spent just as much time touting its great phone and messaging UX as he did showing off its web browser and other apps.