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Media messages from Androids to iPhones are in fact technologically-limited by MMS. That's not an Apple-imposed limitation, it's written in stone in the MMS sta

Media messages from Androids to iPhones are in fact technologically-limited by MMS. That's not an Apple-imposed limitation, it's written in stone in the MMS standard.

lightedman 3y ago
Please show me where that's written because iPhones have no problems sending full-resolution images to my droid device but I can't do the same to them.
akho 3y ago
Works fine over WhatsApp/Telegram/…. Not a technological limitation.
- c0pium 3y ago
  What do you think those have to do with SMS/MMS?
  - akho 3y ago
    The GP comment is about sending media between iPhone and Android, and claims that that is limited by MMS. That’s obviously not true. And has nothing to do with SMS/MMS.
    - c0pium 3y ago
      Huh? Sending MMS between any two devices is pretty clearly limited by MMS.
      - akho 3y ago
        Sending media isn't.
        c0pium 3y ago
        Other mechanisms of sending media are entirely irrelevant to a discussion about using MMS and the technical limitations of the MMS spec.
        akho 3y ago
        We're not in that discussion.
- pmarreck 3y ago
  I was referring specifically to using the text messaging system, not the Internet. You still cannot send livephotos via Whatsapp/Telegram. They convert to still photos. So you still lose something there.
  - akho 3y ago
    MMS limitations are only relevant because Apple makes them relevant. I have never sent or received an MMS outside of the iMessage interoperability context. This is obviously deliberate. You can send whatever you want through SMS, as a link.