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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)

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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.

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[-] danielfgom@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago

Unless the EU makes them use RCS they never will. In the US iMessage is literally THE REASON people buy the iPhone. It's their main selling point. They don't care how much pressure you place on them, they aren't going to lose those sales willingly.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 48 points 10 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

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

I've heard of people not responding to the wrong colored bubbles or being judgemental, like my $1,200 phone is better than your $1,200 phone?

[-] AsimovsRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

What an American problem. 😂

[-] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Bullet dodged. Thinking you're hot shit because you use the ultimate basic bitch phone is just ridiculous.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I mean, guys have the same thing going on. Fickle knows no gender.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

I think basic bitch is not a gender specific phrase, I personally use the meme bitch on myself even as a cis guy.

[-] rar@discuss.online 11 points 10 months ago

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

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

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

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