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WhatsApp also gracefully handles being offline and queuing messages for later. That can’t be said of iMessage.
by Scoundreller 3y ago
WhatsApp also gracefully handles being offline and queuing messages for later.
That can’t be said of iMessage.
- sangnoir 3y agoOffline queueing is a fantastic feature! I know someone who lives in a remote area whose phone only gets network connectivity when they walk up a specific hill. In many ways, they use WhatsApp the way most people used email in the dialup days: read and compose offline, then go online once a day to send and receive new messages. Edit: I sometimes get a chuckle when they say "Look at this cool picture I took", and then receive the picture some days later when the conversation thread has moved on. I guess they'd have stayed in thr coverage area for long enough for the entire image to upload.
- lxgr 3y agoThis is so bizarre to me. How can a native application not implement that, while a third-party application nails it!?
- bdavbdav 3y agoI know when people are in low signal as I get a green then exactly the same blue some time later.
- Scoundreller 3y agoWhich creates issues when you have signal but don’t have a sub to send that actual message over sms. Sometimes sms failover creates further problems because when travelling you’re more likely to have intermittent wifi than intermittent sms access.
- bdavbdav 3y agoI think luckily you can turn off auto sms fallback - but it does indeed default to on.