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> Messages.app, not iMessage is the default. This is semantics and you know it. > iMessage exists for Apple-to-Apple messaging There we go. iMessage is the default for Apple phones contacting other phones. Given that iPhones are a majority in the US, iMessage is the default for most phones in the US. > What? That is certainly a take. I don't see how. I think it's perfectly rational. I'm surprsied you disagree so stro…
> This is semantics and you know it. Nope, it's a distiction . And an important one. > There we go. iMessage is the default for Apple phones contacting other Apple phones. TFTFY. To contact other phones, use SMS, MMS. Even better, talk to your iPhone friends and agree to use another service. What is wrong with that? Literally the rest of the world managed it. > I don't see how. I think it's perfectly rational. I'm su…
It really isn't. I find you making this point funny though after accusing me of being here in bad faith.
> TFTFY.
Not really.
> Literally the rest of the world managed it.
Well, Americans are weird. It's why the blue/green bubble divide even exists in the first place. And if Apple users don't get on board it's just the same situation that already exists right now.
> I disagree because every point you have made has be immature or wrong.
Well that's just plain not true. Although the same could easily be said about your arguments. And again this is funny after you claimed I'm here in bad faith, but you're the one throwing out insults and being dismissive.
> blue/green doesn't exist anywhere in the world,
lol what? It's a problem in the US and not in other countries. If you deny that you have to be pretty out of touch. There's a ton of articles written about it.
> You bringing it up leads me to believe that your likely in your early twenties.
Lol you're desperate to try and dismiss my argument any way you can and it's sad to see. You're about 20 years off.
> You said it, silly, and nor really big bad Apple's fault.
Ahh I get it. You're hooked on the Apple Kool-aid. That explains a lot of your responses to be honest.
And yeah, of course it's Apples fault. They're controlling the way it's implemented.
> They cannot solve for childish responses from people that should know better.
This coming from you is quite ironic.
> It really does, if they want said manufacturer to adope their standard.
Again, it makes no difference if the biggest manufacturer won't support it or chooses to bypass it for most of their users.
Please make sure you read the above line before replying.
> And it was going nowhere then. It's still not widley used.
And if Apple had contributed to the standard instead of offering their proprietary service instead, everyone would be better off.
> So Google restricting access to their proprietary implementation of their RCS service is Apples fault for not contributing to a standard that they were unable at the time to contribute to because they were not members of the standard body drafting the standard behind closed doors. That takes some mental hoop jumping. Are you smelling toast?
Good lord the fallacies here lol.
Google restricting access to their proprietary implementation has nothing to do with Apple not being interested in collaborating and working on a common standard.
> If that is genuinely the case, why isn't a problem for the rest of the world?
Why are many of the problems unique to or prevalent in the USA not problems in the rest of the world? Generally there's not a simple answer.
> Reminder to future me. Don't respond. It's a waste of time.
I honestly hope you won't respond against to this message although you seem like someone that's going to need to. Honestly it's discussions like this that make me wish HN had a block function. You've been rude and dismissive from the start.