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"Default messaging app" is a creation of Android, necessitated because every cell phone manufacturer wanted its own messaging app. It somehow later became a fea
by mlindner 3y ago
"Default messaging app" is a creation of Android, necessitated because every cell phone manufacturer wanted its own messaging app. It somehow later became a feature people needed because those pre-installed apps were often dreadful adware junk. This was never a problem on iPhones. No one wants to set a "default messaging app". It mixes up where messages go. I want my Signal messages in the Signal app. I want my LINE messages in the LINE app. Putting them in random different places doesn't make sense and confuses where they're coming from. I don't want my contacts showing up half a dozen times repeatedly for every messaging app they're using.
I don't see anyone on Android wanting to put their SMS messages in the Discord app.
- rezonant 3y agoOn Android there is no such thing as a default messaging app. There is such a thing as a default SMS app, but my point is that messaging and texting represent two different things (texting is a subset of messaging) which has an extremely material impact on the dynamics of what is happening in the US, and why iMessage, RCS, and interoperability is a very big deal to users who use a texting app.
- seabrookmx 3y agoWeird take. Default apps for certain file types and links (email, video, etc) are a precedent across multiple operatings systems. > No one wants Quite the assumption. I had Google Hangouts set as my default SMS app for a time.. this seems quite similar to your Discord example? It hurts nobody to have the _choice_. If you don't want to change the default that's totally OK.