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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
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this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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Solving the "blue bubble" problem is easy. Stop giving a fuck about what iPhone users care about.
Or Apple can stop being a bitch and just change the hex code.
They want iPhone users to have want they want and need when switching to Android. I think it's not a bad idea. Personally, I find MMS to be horrible. Not because of lack of features but because it is different for everybody in one group chat. The messages become out of order, things don't send but say they do, etc. iMessage isn't the best solution, but if I'm being kicked out of group chats because I'm that one person making it MMS, then I'm all for iMessage on Android.
I am wondering if there is any other alternative to SMS and MMS that works on all mobile & desktop platforms. Hmmm, let me think... Hmm.... Probably not. 🙆
No. Just no. Apple does not get to unilaterally make new protocols for the world.
I don't want them to either but we both know rcs will not be supported on Apple. At least not easily.
They bitch about it constantly
I'm an adult, and I deal with family members bitching at me that are over 50. I explain to them every time that this is 100% Apple's designed problem, and they like to roll their eyes in response.
Apple users CAN be really fucking annoying to deal with. In my admittedly limited experience, most of them are this way.
I'm an iPhone user and I don't care about this. Not everyone who has an iPhone gives a shit about what phones other people use. Use whatever phone you want and whatever computer you want and whatever OS you want and stop giving a fuck about what other people use like it's some sort of crime.
My problem with that is that a lot of them then insist on using an outdated standard that lacks encryption and high resolution media instead of just downloading something like WhatsApp, Signal, or Matrix.