Side note: I wonder why they didn't put Telegram in the "Other messaging apps." section, instead of only Whatsapp and Signal.
“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
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#192I still don't get why people use SMS/MMS anyway? I've been using WhatsApp for ages now and so does everybody else in my country - and every country I've been in, apart from China and Japan. My friend who's from the US once said "I've paid for those text messages, so I'm going to use them!" But if I send him a text from Europe to the US, I pay 1 damn euro per delivered text. WhatsApp is free! Is there any viable reaso…
SMS is the only federated messaging system guaranteed available on all cell phones. That makes it more useful than any walled garden.
Re: “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
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I'd rather live in a world with spam than a world where corporations get to decide what I run on my devices, and cripple a bunch of critical applications if I decide I want to, y'know, actually do whatever I want with the hardware I own. I'm not unsympathetic to Apple's difficulties and goals here (assuming this spam problem is actually the reason, though I'm skeptical that there aren't also self-serving reasons that…
> I'd rather live in a world with spam than a world where corporations get to decide what I run on my devices, and cripple a bunch of critical applications if I decide I want to, y'know, actually do whatever I want with the hardware I own. It’s really oppressive that Apple doesn’t let you install WhatsApp, Secret, Telegram, FB Messenger or any other communications app beyond their own. While it’s all sweetness and li…
> “standard” tied to a phone number subscription that brings along all the retrograde privacy nightmares of Big Telecom since the bell system broke up.
Is there a way to make an account with Apple that isn't tied to a mobile phone number? If so, I've never been able to find it.
Re: “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
#194I still don't get why people use SMS/MMS anyway? I've been using WhatsApp for ages now and so does everybody else in my country - and every country I've been in, apart from China and Japan. My friend who's from the US once said "I've paid for those text messages, so I'm going to use them!" But if I send him a text from Europe to the US, I pay 1 damn euro per delivered text. WhatsApp is free! Is there any viable reaso…
Almost nobody I know uses WhatsApp. On the other hand, a significant number of people I meet do have iMessage. There's no incentive for me to install WhatsApp. Even my friends internationally all have iPhones. I don't install third-party apps unless there is a very good reason. SMS is an inferior but acceptable fallback for edge cases.
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This is the most trivial complaint I've ever read. I'm in my 50s and I have zero problems reading green bubbles - it just means that it hasn't been sent via iMessage - if I send to an iPhone and sending falls back to SMS it looks just the same. I can't believe people get that upset about green v blue.
That’s very ableist of you. About 1 in 12 males are colorblind. I’m in this group. I find white text on a bright green background very difficult to read.
Which is why there are accessibility settings for exactly that.
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You've explained the subtext of the article. Which means the article did need to be written.
lol, in no way. The article has a call to action to try to get Apple to change course. The author suggesting that indicates a total lack of comprehension to Apple’s plan and purpose/intention. Calling for people to ask Apple to change this is like politely asking Opioid manufacturers to stop killing people. It’s profit. It has nothing to do with what’s best for the consumer. My main point of the comment was not to ex…
The audience isn't really Apple. It's regulators.
Re: “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
#197I still don't get why people use SMS/MMS anyway? I've been using WhatsApp for ages now and so does everybody else in my country - and every country I've been in, apart from China and Japan. My friend who's from the US once said "I've paid for those text messages, so I'm going to use them!" But if I send him a text from Europe to the US, I pay 1 damn euro per delivered text. WhatsApp is free! Is there any viable reaso…
It comes preinstalled, works, is free. Why would I look for a different messaging app? What does WhatsApp do that the preinstalled, free, messaging app doesn't?
Deliver your messages encrypted, not mess up video quality when sending to/from Android users, sends messages over WiFi just to name a few.
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No, it is not. The RCS standards are managed by the GSMA. It is supported by many companies, one of which is Google.
So where is it used except Android? With any market share that makes it significant beyond android?
According to the sources I was able to find, iOS and Android collectively make up more than 99% of the smart phone market. There isn’t any significant market share outside of Android because there is no significant market outside of Android.
Re: “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
#199One way looking at it is that carrier job is only to provide data service. They should not be in the business of messaging. Users (and market) will chose to use whatever messaging service they want.
This even applies to voice. I rather do Signal voice call than carrier voice call with most of my friends. Better quality, encryption, etc.
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That’s very ableist of you. About 1 in 12 males are colorblind. I’m in this group. I find white text on a bright green background very difficult to read.
It’s the text you send, not incoming, so you don’t need to read it much. There’s also various accessibility features to help with color across the os.
Not only that, but these are complaints coming from non-iPhone users, by definition, which means it is totally up to Android what color their messages are displayed in.