Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

  • @[email protected]
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    489 months ago

    I have seen people literally say they like that iMessage is exclusive, and they like to keep Android users away/separate

    It was reeking of classism in addition to being generally a terrible thing to read

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      119 months ago

      That’s just sad. Not even sports teams or musicians, but over a walled-gardened messaging app?

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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      29 months ago

      I knew a 29 y/o woman that switched to iPhone so that others with iPhones would see her text messages bubble as blue instead of green. Imagine blowing over a thousand dollars so that someone else sees blue rather than green in text messages. Meanwhile, I can make the bubble colors whatever color I want on my Android.

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        19 months ago

        I honestly blame Apple for abusing the societal penchant for forming tribes around random things.

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      19 months ago

      Top whack android phones aret really cheaper than iPhones these days so it’s not classism as such. Yanks just seem to love to tribalise everything, see masks during Covid as another example. I think it’s a result of having a two party political system.