Mainly, when you’re messaging an iPhone user you get the benefits that it provides: less compressed images and videos, read receipts, more reliable messaging (you won’t see message “delivered” unless it actually reaches the person you’re messaging), encryption, etc.
When messaging someone without using iMessage such as when texting an Android user from iPhone or vice versa, it’s going directly over the data carrier networks, which heavily compresses images and videos, so if an Android user sends an iPhone user a video file directly, it ends up very blurry if it’s longer than 30 seconds-a minute or so, images are okay most of the time if they aren’t huge or detailed. You also don’t get read receipts on either end. The texts also aren’t encrypted so the data provider and anyone who spoofs a cell tower can read all messages
Messaging between iPhone/iPad/Mac works great as you said though, but I actively use something else like Signal, Discord, or Telegram when messaging my friends who don’t have one because it’s a lesser experience on both ends.
Also reactions, while they’ve been fixed in some apps like Google Messages, other SMS apps when an iMessage user gives a thumbs up on a message, it appears as a text message to the Android user similar to “Liked (your message)” etc. Example. This also happens when Android users send reactions via RCS to an iMessage user, at least until Apple finishes their implementation of RCS in 2024. Android can’t do a native fix like that since iMessage isn’t allowed on non-apple devices, but RCS is allowed on non-android devices.
The issue isn’t that iMessage is bad, it’s really good imo, it’s just that iMessage makes messaging people who don’t have iMessage worse by comparison since it’s only on Apple devices, if it were opened up then everyone could text everyone without anyone missing out or having a worse experience.
That’s interesting about the reactions. I’m an Android (Pixel) user, and I swear when using the standard SMS app on my phone, from some iOS users I see their reactions as an emoji, while from others it does the “[user] liked your message” thing. Could it also be related to the version of iOS that’s being used on the other end?
Maybe, I’m not sure exactly how they implemented it but I’d guess for Google Messages it just reads the text and tries to stick the emote from it on the text that it’s quoting, then deletes the “user liked your message” text itself before you see it, so if there’s ever a mismatch on the quote for some reason or if older iOS versions word it differently that might be what’s causing that
So… What your telling us is that it’s bad. Not good.
because incompatible. It won’t work on any device. Except those of that cult. That cult whose leader killed himself after magically getting a a new liver somewhere in Asia.
You know, donor organs for which there are waiting lists of months and months.
Which was totally not weird and surely 100% legal and all. Just fine.
Mainly, when you’re messaging an iPhone user you get the benefits that it provides: less compressed images and videos, read receipts, more reliable messaging (you won’t see message “delivered” unless it actually reaches the person you’re messaging), encryption, etc.
When messaging someone without using iMessage such as when texting an Android user from iPhone or vice versa, it’s going directly over the data carrier networks, which heavily compresses images and videos, so if an Android user sends an iPhone user a video file directly, it ends up very blurry if it’s longer than 30 seconds-a minute or so, images are okay most of the time if they aren’t huge or detailed. You also don’t get read receipts on either end. The texts also aren’t encrypted so the data provider and anyone who spoofs a cell tower can read all messages
Messaging between iPhone/iPad/Mac works great as you said though, but I actively use something else like Signal, Discord, or Telegram when messaging my friends who don’t have one because it’s a lesser experience on both ends.
Also reactions, while they’ve been fixed in some apps like Google Messages, other SMS apps when an iMessage user gives a thumbs up on a message, it appears as a text message to the Android user similar to “Liked (your message)” etc. Example. This also happens when Android users send reactions via RCS to an iMessage user, at least until Apple finishes their implementation of RCS in 2024. Android can’t do a native fix like that since iMessage isn’t allowed on non-apple devices, but RCS is allowed on non-android devices.
The issue isn’t that iMessage is bad, it’s really good imo, it’s just that iMessage makes messaging people who don’t have iMessage worse by comparison since it’s only on Apple devices, if it were opened up then everyone could text everyone without anyone missing out or having a worse experience.
That’s interesting about the reactions. I’m an Android (Pixel) user, and I swear when using the standard SMS app on my phone, from some iOS users I see their reactions as an emoji, while from others it does the “[user] liked your message” thing. Could it also be related to the version of iOS that’s being used on the other end?
Maybe, I’m not sure exactly how they implemented it but I’d guess for Google Messages it just reads the text and tries to stick the emote from it on the text that it’s quoting, then deletes the “user liked your message” text itself before you see it, so if there’s ever a mismatch on the quote for some reason or if older iOS versions word it differently that might be what’s causing that
So… What your telling us is that it’s bad. Not good.
because incompatible. It won’t work on any device. Except those of that cult. That cult whose leader killed himself after magically getting a a new liver somewhere in Asia.
You know, donor organs for which there are waiting lists of months and months.
Which was totally not weird and surely 100% legal and all. Just fine.
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