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its more than a shame. emoji, gifs and images are a core part of teens' communications (I have one, I know all too well), and iMessage's green bubble is also a

its more than a shame. emoji, gifs and images are a core part of teens' communications (I have one, I know all too well), and iMessage's green bubble is also a guarantee that these things won't work, so its not just a shame, it is a hard road block. Fortunately a lot of teens moved to discord.

Jtsummers 3y ago
Based on all the messages I get from my work colleagues (mostly android users much more into memes and things than I am), gifs and emojis and other features work just fine these days with MMS messaging on iPhone.
- fsckboy 3y ago
  videos taken on your or their phones don't show up postage stamp sized and blurry/bricky any more? that's usually how a green bubble drags an iphone group down although the "liked your message" type stuff is also annoying.
  - lazycouchpotato 3y ago
    Google thankfully added a workaround/fix for that. "Liked your message" shows up as a reaction on Google Messages. https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/googles-message-app-can-now-handle-imessage-reactions-challenges-apple-with-new-features/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/googles-message-app-can-no... In fact, the role's been reversed - the iPhone user now gets the "liked your message" text message while on Google Messages it shows up as a reaction.
- canucker2016 3y ago
  When iMessage has to send a pic or vid to a group that contains non-iMessage recipients, iMessage will fallback to MMS and may need to recompress the pic/vid to get under the MMS media limit. MMS, introduced in 2002, has much lower limits for pictures/video than if the messaging apps were to send the media over data/internet. Also these MMS media limits aren't hardcoded, the limits are set by the sending and receiving carriers. see https://www.androidpolice.com/why-text-message-videos-look-blurry-how-to-fix/ https://www.androidpolice.com/why-text-message-videos-look-b...
joshmanders 3y ago
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Jtsummers 3y ago

Based on all the messages I get from my work colleagues (mostly android users much more into memes and things than I am), gifs and emojis and other features work just fine these days with MMS messaging on iPhone.

fsckboy 3y ago
videos taken on your or their phones don't show up postage stamp sized and blurry/bricky any more? that's usually how a green bubble drags an iphone group down although the "liked your message" type stuff is also annoying.
- lazycouchpotato 3y ago
  Google thankfully added a workaround/fix for that. "Liked your message" shows up as a reaction on Google Messages. https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/googles-message-app-can-now-handle-imessage-reactions-challenges-apple-with-new-features/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/googles-message-app-can-no... In fact, the role's been reversed - the iPhone user now gets the "liked your message" text message while on Google Messages it shows up as a reaction.
canucker2016 3y ago
When iMessage has to send a pic or vid to a group that contains non-iMessage recipients, iMessage will fallback to MMS and may need to recompress the pic/vid to get under the MMS media limit. MMS, introduced in 2002, has much lower limits for pictures/video than if the messaging apps were to send the media over data/internet. Also these MMS media limits aren't hardcoded, the limits are set by the sending and receiving carriers. see https://www.androidpolice.com/why-text-message-videos-look-blurry-how-to-fix/ https://www.androidpolice.com/why-text-message-videos-look-b...

joshmanders 3y ago

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