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Re: Apple Invites

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Post by malloci »

chippiewill wrote: post #441
yumraj wrote: post #437

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But isn’t that the same when people and schools create effing Facebook groups and events or whatever they are called and find it hard to believe that people don’t use that crap. Or create WhatsApp groups and communities and so on and on.

Yes, but at least those don't have hardware lock-in.

From the article, however, you don't technically need an apple device...an iCloud+ account is sufficient. That said, I don't know many people with iCloud+ who aren't already in the Apple ecosystem, and obviously anything Apple releases will obviously have some advantage to it if you use the hardware alone.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by fungiblecog »

Are people all so useless now we need an app for this despite having all the tools we need already? No wonder innovation in software is dead when you can pump out the same crap over and over with shinier graphics

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Post by Auracle »

ghaff wrote: post #232
mvieira38 wrote: post #210

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Imagine being a teen with an Android in the Apple Invite age, the bullying will go crazy

The whole green bubble thing has got to be one of the stupidest status symbol things I've seen in a long time. Though I have no doubt there are many of them. If anything, it's maybe a good life lesson that many supposed status symbols are breathtakingly stupid to care about.

I don’t believe it’s just status symbol - until the recent RCS implementation having an Android phone in your group text meant that photos/videos would be awful MMS quality.

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Post by Hackbraten »

chippiewill wrote: post #441
yumraj wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But isn’t that the same when people and schools create effing Facebook groups and events or whatever they are called and find it hard to believe that people don’t use that crap. Or create WhatsApp groups and communities and so on and on.

Yes, but at least those don't have hardware lock-in.

WhatsApp absolutely has hardware lock-in. You need to be an Apple or Google customer to use it, and you need at least one Android or iOS phone.

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Post by crazygringo »

joshuamorton wrote: post #223
r00fus wrote: post #171

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Mission Accomplished. iOS is a significantly large enough market that it will have some success for those looking to replace FB/evite. You can say the same thing about FB/Whatsapp or any other social network - you have to be in-network to get the invite even. Looking forward to testing this out for some events.

Most social networks don't have a $5-600 buy-in cost though.

The cheapest iCloud+ plan is $0.99/mo., which a lot of people are already on just for backup of photos and videos.

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Post by dimator »

zie wrote: post #456
NoPicklez wrote: post #453

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I'm an Apple guy and I have to disagree, it's not the Telco's. Android implemented RCS and Apple dragged their feet in implementing the standardised platform such that high quality messaging was seamless and agnostic between brands The iPhone needed to reduce the quality of pics/videos to non-iMessage recipients because Apple didn't support any other form of non-iMessage messaging.

RCS is not really an open standard though. If you want encrypted RCS with android phones, you can't unless Google lets you. At least that was true last I checked. I'm guessing it hasn't changed.

Are you saying if Apple asked Google to sit down and come up with an encrypted RCS working group and get proper interop done, it would be _Google_ that would decline?

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Post by TheDong »

jerlam wrote: post #424
TheDong wrote: post #382

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It does. If you try to send a photo in an inferior green bubble chat, you get an error. Face time calls don’t work. The text is harder to read for me because it’s low contrast and can’t be configured. It’s significantly less secure, and a government agent required I use blue bubble imessage to submit an important document for security, and wouldn’t accept it by sms or email since both were not secure enough

Sending a message should just default to MMS, which I agree is lower quality especially for videos, but shouldn't get an error. I'm in multiple group chats with Android users and it's fine other than videos, which are from 2005. I think SMS/MMS should just go away entirely though.

On my device it always gives me an error telling me to turn on MMS, which is turned on of course.

No, rebooting the phone doesn’t change anything, thanks for suggesting it

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by TheDong »

Spivak wrote: post #415
TheDong wrote: post #382

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It does. If you try to send a photo in an inferior green bubble chat, you get an error. Face time calls don’t work. The text is harder to read for me because it’s low contrast and can’t be configured. It’s significantly less secure, and a government agent required I use blue bubble imessage to submit an important document for security, and wouldn’t accept it by sms or email since both were not secure enough

What are you talking about? Photos have worked in MSS group chats for 10+ years now. They send as shit quality but they work. And now mixed group chats are RCS which has all the important features of iMessage.

The error tells me to turn on MMS, which is already on.

RCS isn’t an obvious option anywhere

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