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It's not infantile. Imessage is superior in every way
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Android users, persecuted and harassed for having green text bubbles? Fear not, Samsung is here to help... with gifs!
- Thread starter Brian McDoogle
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its Just to show they are not on iPhone bc than you don't get to use the Apple features bc android phones are not compatible.
I guess iPhones cost the most and people want to date the person with most expensive phone?
I guess iPhones cost the most and people want to date the person with most expensive phone?
Apple needs to release (i)Message on other platforms. :(
WhatApp, Phone (iPhone), FaceTime (iPhone), Hangouts, etc. What's going on?
90% of all messaging apps are green, too. It's a conspiracy!
WhatApp, Phone (iPhone), FaceTime (iPhone), Hangouts, etc. What's going on?
I like iMessage as much as the next guy but I've been on Apple for only a year now....what is the list of improvements iMessage allows?
ONLY if android is more green than blue. otherwise we have a problem.
Honestly I don't know, it's suppose to be like WhatsApp I think. I have both and don't use any advanced functionality so eh.
Compromise, each text is a randomly generated gradient of blue-green.
You can see when the other person is typing (really good for group chats)
Read receipts
You know for sure whether or not a message got sent or not
Allows for longer messages
Videos sent by SMS have to be compressed as shit and always look terrible, whereas iMessage videos do not
Deilvery Confirmation
Read Confirmation
yeah, those things are nice, I like the new feature where in CarPlay and driving somewhere you click an ETA button that iMessage a contact for you so they know your on way, and details, and get another message like a minute away. But it was ripped out a few beta updates ago, so fingers crossed it comes back?
i have heard you can send higher quality photos, but I don't know say what a messenger sends like in compared to image quality to iMessage?
i also like where you can hold on a txt message and like it,etc like you would a fb post. Me and the wife use the thumbs up all the time. Especially on the watch.
the thing where you hold down the send button and get cool effects like fireworks is neat, but just flair. Miimjoi, to be fair is kind of nearer than I want to give it credit for, and the miimoji stickers in ios13 will def expand who uses that feature, prob get a bit more popular.
i guess FaceTime gets lumped in kind of? Right? Is it better than the video chat if competitors ?
edit: another thought, on iOS 13 they are going to leave a lil "sent by Siri" when you use it to send a message which I always do, esp in the car…is this a feature? It kind of lets the other person know to allow for some errors in the spmessage, but in a way thats massaging the abrasiveness of Siri...lacking right now, but speaking of which is the rumour that siriOS ios14 thing got any merit to it
iMessage is great, but I'm not using any iPhone starting with the X and beyond. I have fundamental disagreements with their designs. Maybe one day Apple will end this silly green bubble shaming, which also results in people making stereotypes that non-iPhone users are poorer. Humans are terrible.
That's an absolute deal killer. Screw needy people who need to know when you read their message
Yes. The rest of the world had the common sense to use WhatsApp.
WhatsApp does all those things.
I swear this whole thread feels like it's from an alternate dimension, to a non-American.
It varies.
Messenger (FB) is extremely popular in North America and around the world.
Line is big in Japan.
Whatsapp is big in Central/South America and various Asian countries (India, etc).
WeChat is big especially in China.
Viber, Telegram, etc all have a market.
But I think that user was saying iMessage is better compared to normal SMS.
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Pretty much, and it's something any android user can have by buying a few year old Mac Mini and setting it up as a relay to forward to your phone. There's several apps that leverage Apple hardware to give you access to iMessages for people who want it and have $50-$150 to burn.
Yeah, I use Messenger too in addition to WhatsApp. I guess my point was more that the rest of the world has moved away from SMS.
(I still pay per SMS message, so I'm not even messaging someone who isn't using one of the apps)
Fuck the classism of being locked in to an iPhone and blaming it on others
Some millennials be moving to Telegram, which I enjoy the most, and it is multiplatform. Both have 95% of iMessage features, only missing maybe the watch thing.
Pretty sure Whatsapp is like 90% of mobile messaging users in Italy, no one I know actually uses SMSs
Some millennials be moving to Telegram, which I enjoy the most, and it is multiplatform. Both have 95% of iMessage features, only missing maybe the watch thing.
I begrudge having to use WhatsApp purely because of the limitation of being tied to a single device.
In this day and age I should be able to have a single account across as many devices as I choose. The web app isn't sufficient.
LOL I have infinite SMSs on my plan but when I have 0 data I'm like "nope, no messaging for me now". I don't even think about them other than for services sending codes.
The first two are good.
The third is whatever,
The fourth is fucking creepy.
Yeah, gotta admit that I find that annoying too. I use the web version a lot because I can't stand typing on a phone, but it often has connectivity issues since it still relies on being connected to the phone.
I prefer Messenger myself, but got forced into WhatsApp because most people I know are only on WhatsApp.
It's a standard feature in every messaging app I've used, and I'm pretty sure most of them let you disable it (i.e. people can no longer see when you've read their message, but then you also can't see when other people have read your messages).
Yeah this is one of the few dumb things that's actually a US thing. All of the other messaging apps took forever to become popular in the US so this ended up happening
These threads have popped up before she people admit they hate the blue ticks I think mainly to do with group chats. Also people have said they have been excluded because of it.
It's actually fucking disgusting. It's like something from Black Mirror.
It's actually fucking disgusting. It's like something from Black Mirror.
Where I live nobody gives a shit about the color of your text bubbles. Everyone is using WhatsApp anyway. By the way, you should be glad if someone is not going to date you just because your text bubbles are a different color. It means you just dodged a bullet.
They aren't really coded by device - if you send an SMS from iPhone to iPhone the message will appear green as it's the color of SMS. iMessage messages are in blue.
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So true lol
Aaand that was my one time use.
iMessage doesn't have to be downloaded though. It's a built-in messaging app. That's its only thing that makes it better, which is a really small thing... But iOS people have to latch onto something to feel better. I'm using an iPhone right now, but my next one is going to be Android again. I miss Android.
I don't think most people get self-worth from the electronics they use. But hey! If it makes you feel better! <3
Except we're in a thread about people looking down on other for not having blue bubbles. You must feel stupid now.
