Moving seamlessly between iPad/iPhone/watch/homepod/laptop with iMessage -- and forwarding of text messages -- is absolutely a critical feature for me. Before I bought the most recent update to the Macbook Pro line (refused to use butterfly keys), I was seriously considering switching back to PC full time. iMessage was the biggest killer app for me.
I use Signal with a few people, but I don't know anyone who uses WhatsApp.
Moving seamlessly between iPad/iPhone/watch/homepod/laptop with iMessage -- and forwarding of text messages -- is absolutely a critical feature for me.
Yes. There are. I eventually switched from Android to iOS not because I really liked the iPhone, but because my 12-member group did most communication over group text. And if you're on iOS, you can only text ten people in a group (including yourself) if they're not all iMessage users. So I got to find out things like, say, that our office manager had cancer when she asked me for restaurant recommendations near MD Anderson. I was completely left out of the loop. And nobody else cared.
Why? Does facebook allow iMessage to send message to Facebook messanger? If not why are they asking other way around? Most companies had created their messaging systems closed and iMessage is not unique in this field. If they open up iMessage, it will become another spam channel.
Why? Does facebook allow iMessage to send message to Facebook messanger? If not why are they asking other way around? Most companies had created their messaging systems closed and iMessage is not unique in this field. If they open up iMessage, it will become another spam channel.
Actually, iOS is slightly unique in this regard, because iMessage has exclusive access to SMS, which means if somebody texts you over SMS, it will appear exclusively in iMessage, and not in any other app, unlike most other platforms. So there's no way to fully avoid using iMessage on iOS, whereas on other platforms, you could use other apps to send and receive SMS messages. That's arguably an unfair competitive advantage, so the argument that Apple should be required to open up iMessage more isn't entirel
I'm confused here, I didn't think iMessage had anything to do with sms/mms beond the pissebility ypto sand an iMessage as sms/mms if iMessage was unavoidable fore some reason or the other. The hole thing is confused a bit since iMessege and sms/mms ( different protocols) are consolidated in the same app, so it is sometimes hard to sirt out if people are refering to an iMessage ( denited by the blue bouble) or just calling any message received in the messages app an I message
I'm confused here, I didn't think iMessage had anything to do with sms/mms beond the pissebility ypto sand an iMessage as sms/mms if iMessage was unavoidable fore some reason or the other. The hole thing is confused a bit since iMessege and sms/mms ( different protocols) are consolidated in the same app, so it is sometimes hard to sirt out if people are refering to an iMessage ( denited by the blue bouble) or just calling any message received in the messages app an I message
Sorry, I should have been more precise. The Messages app from Apple is the only app that can send SMS. I was conflating the app name with its main protocol's name. The point is that Apple has exclusive control over SMS on iOS, which makes their messaging solution more robust than third-party messaging can be, and it also means that users can't ever truly get away from Apple's messaging solution (unless you don't care about getting text messages for two-factor, etc.), so users might as well also use the i
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Apple is allowing 3rd party tracker devices. Their biggest monopoly leverage is iMessages. They need to allow 3rd party iMessages.
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Is that really a problem? I never use it. Are there many iPhone users who prefer it over WhatsApp or Signal?
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Moving seamlessly between iPad/iPhone/watch/homepod/laptop with iMessage -- and forwarding of text messages -- is absolutely a critical feature for me. Before I bought the most recent update to the Macbook Pro line (refused to use butterfly keys), I was seriously considering switching back to PC full time. iMessage was the biggest killer app for me.
I use Signal with a few people, but I don't know anyone who uses WhatsApp.
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Moving seamlessly between iPad/iPhone/watch/homepod/laptop with iMessage -- and forwarding of text messages -- is absolutely a critical feature for me.
MightyText app solves that problem on Android.
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Using Signal on Android
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Why? Does facebook allow iMessage to send message to Facebook messanger? If not why are they asking other way around? Most companies had created their messaging systems closed and iMessage is not unique in this field. If they open up iMessage, it will become another spam channel.
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Why? Does facebook allow iMessage to send message to Facebook messanger? If not why are they asking other way around? Most companies had created their messaging systems closed and iMessage is not unique in this field. If they open up iMessage, it will become another spam channel.
Actually, iOS is slightly unique in this regard, because iMessage has exclusive access to SMS, which means if somebody texts you over SMS, it will appear exclusively in iMessage, and not in any other app, unlike most other platforms. So there's no way to fully avoid using iMessage on iOS, whereas on other platforms, you could use other apps to send and receive SMS messages. That's arguably an unfair competitive advantage, so the argument that Apple should be required to open up iMessage more isn't entirel
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I'm confused here, I didn't think iMessage had anything to do with sms/mms beond the pissebility ypto sand an iMessage as sms/mms if iMessage was unavoidable fore some reason or the other. The hole thing is confused a bit since iMessege and sms/mms ( different protocols) are consolidated in the same app, so it is sometimes hard to sirt out if people are refering to an iMessage ( denited by the blue bouble) or just calling any message received in the messages app an I message
Sorry, I should have been more precise. The Messages app from Apple is the only app that can send SMS. I was conflating the app name with its main protocol's name. The point is that Apple has exclusive control over SMS on iOS, which makes their messaging solution more robust than third-party messaging can be, and it also means that users can't ever truly get away from Apple's messaging solution (unless you don't care about getting text messages for two-factor, etc.), so users might as well also use the i
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Perhaps there shouldn't be any that aren't cross-platform.