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I think the funniest aspect of this is that I'm planning on buying my mom an iphone next month to solve this issue.
Hopefully they'll plug all the loopholes and actually enforce it.
I don't understand how anyone can defend business practices like this, which are exclusively there for the purpose of platform lock-in.
Why is iMessage even an issue? All phones can send conventional texts to each other
The average Joe does not know the difference between SMS and the more advanced features that iMessage offers when messaging withing the apple ecosystem. All they see is that androids are unable to send high quality images, send reactions etc.
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Stop being a snobby elitest. Choosing an Apple phone doesn't make you better than, and making life-choices based on such matters.. well, good luck with that.
Agreed. Choosing Apple is like watching The Big Bang Theory. Or buying some burnt trash from Starbucks.
It reveals a lot about the individual behind the opinion, which can be informative.
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Are you a Seinfeld character? "I had to break up with her! She's a green bubbler, Jerry: Every message I get, bloop bloop bloop -- green bubbles! Regular texts, Jerry. Not even encrypted. She probably thinks iMessage is a sentence fragment!"
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Remember how much shit Microsoft got when they did crap like this with Windows and IE? I guess Bill Gates just wasn't charming enough.
I wouldn’t want to force them to adopt some third party protocol, especially if this is initiated by Google (who has a history of failed text/chat products).
So I buy her phones. I pay for her service, and I pay for AppleCare, some peripherals and other services that make it useful. It’s the least I could do for her giving me life. She gets a camera too, doesn’t get caught on one side of the digital divide and more importantly, she retains the means of having a social life as she gets older.