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Which API? (Genuinely curious, thanks in advance!)
I just know there is one that smartwatches used before the Apple Watch was introduced. It allows third party watches to receive notifications. Others are thinking MS is just using the standard BT profile for messages that all modern cellphones support
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I just know there is one that smartwatches used before the Apple Watch was introduced. It allows third party watches to receive notifications. Others are thinking MS is just using the standard BT profile for messages that all modern cellphones support
But that API doesn't allow for replies. Only notifications. So they aren't doing it the same way as Fitbit or Garmin and other smartwatch companies.
https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/message-acces...
Weirdly enough Dell has had this tech since ~2018 but you had tk spoof your computer as a Dell to use it on non-dell computers. Looks like Intel bought the company that made it in 2021 and the Dell app is being discontinued.
Dell Mobile Connect on Windows Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/dell-mobile-connect/...
Dell Mobile Connect and Alienware Mobile Connect End of Service Announcement : https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000199082/dell-mobi...
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Accounts with per SMS billing were unlikely to have mobile data for comfortable Whatsapp usage, so I doubt that was the substitution. To call between France and various African countries in the early Android era, I remember first using Viber - but after a while everyone switched to Whatsapp in a few months: somehow, through some sheer black magic, Whatsapp had nailed voice quality over the lossy high-latency links th…
> Accounts with per SMS billing were unlikely to have mobile data for comfortable Whatsapp usage, so I doubt that was the substitution. Care to quantify that? PAYG SMS was/is consistently way more expensive than PAYG data[1] in every country I have visited; granted I haven't been to many countries, but I've visited most continents. IIRC, there's a 2-3 orders of magnitude difference in the costs-per-140-bytes sent. Pe…
Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).
Those blinded fools have no idea what abuse they are putting up with, they rationalize every inconvenience and will happily evangelize the Word of Apple.
(Disclaimer: In principle, I love all people regardless of their use of OS/product/whatever ^_^)
Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).
My biggest gripe is when iPhone users share video or images, they are grainy nonsense. If Apple just moved to RCS this would be solved, but they refuse simply because they know it handicaps their competitor. The react thing has largely been fixed by Google on newer versions of messenger. It's impossible to fix the video stuff. People outside the US don't get it. They say everyone should switch to Whatsapp, etc, but g…
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I don't have WhatsApp or iMessage; anyone who wants to communicate with me can use email or Signal. Signal lets me sign in with VoIP numbers, so it works fine for my uses, and is reasonably secure.
If I drew that line I would have approximately zero people communicating with me.
If someone can't be assed to download a zero cost and surveillance-free, ad-free app to talk to you, how much do they really value communicating with you?
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Removed SMS support from the app
It seems counterintuitive to use SMS in the first place if your users expect end to end encryption.
Having switched back to Android, it can be infuriating dealing with iPhone users. I get slammed with "messages" when someone reacts to a message and oftentimes, messages just don't show up or messages go to my iPad and not my phone. Apple makes this extremely confusing. The iPhone users never know of their message goes through or what they're actually sending to (my iCloud account or my phone number).