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As a regular Apple defender, I don't think most of us give a shit. I mean everyone I know uses WhatsApp here. I use iMessage within my family group because we a

by baz00 3y ago

As a regular Apple defender, I don't think most of us give a shit. I mean everyone I know uses WhatsApp here. I use iMessage within my family group because we all have iPhones but there appears to be absolutely no problem whatsoever with people anywhere. It goes "hey are you on whatsapp" ... and the problem is sorted. RCS is another one of these shit shows. As I said elsewhere on this thread, I used an Android recently for a couple of months (just so I have a right to bitch about it) and when I switched back it broke SMS for me. I was only using SMS to activate WhatsApp.

solardev 3y ago
In the US it's a real pain because we haven't had a popular national IM client since AOL Instant Messenger. Texting is the only way we can reliably communicate with other Americans, but the compatibility isn't great. Group chats, reactions, emoji etc. are all different. When an iPhone user thumbs up a message, all the android users get spammed with a message like "soandso loved: full quote of message". Our culture is really behind the times. I have zero issues communicating with people in Asia over Line or Europeans using WhatsApp. But I can't reliably text the people living in my same town, lol. Welcome to the USA.
oldandboring 3y ago
What I find from many of my adult iPhone-using friends is that they've got Whatsapp installed and they'll reply to me if I message them there, but when they want to send me something out of the blue they forget about Whatsapp and it comes through over SMS because they're so used to sharing via 'Messages'. The exception would be the persistent group chats in WhatsApp, they seem to think of these like 'chat rooms' from back in the day. In fact, I would go further to say that WhatsApp is preferred in my age cohort for group messaging and organization purposes because it solves the "green bubble problem".

by baz00 3y ago

solardev 3y ago

In the US it's a real pain because we haven't had a popular national IM client since AOL Instant Messenger. Texting is the only way we can reliably communicate with other Americans, but the compatibility isn't great. Group chats, reactions, emoji etc. are all different. When an iPhone user thumbs up a message, all the android users get spammed with a message like "soandso loved: full quote of message". Our culture is really behind the times. I have zero issues communicating with people in Asia over Line or Europeans using WhatsApp. But I can't reliably text the people living in my same town, lol. Welcome to the USA.

oldandboring 3y ago

What I find from many of my adult iPhone-using friends is that they've got Whatsapp installed and they'll reply to me if I message them there, but when they want to send me something out of the blue they forget about Whatsapp and it comes through over SMS because they're so used to sharing via 'Messages'. The exception would be the persistent group chats in WhatsApp, they seem to think of these like 'chat rooms' from back in the day. In fact, I would go further to say that WhatsApp is preferred in my age cohort for group messaging and organization purposes because it solves the "green bubble problem".