I never thought I’d see this day. I thought we’d get aliens on the White House lawn before Apple ever caved.
I hope it works seamlessly but, more importantly, will the bubbles all be blue once RCS is added? Will we be able to turn off read receipts and typing indicators?
People in many countries that are not in North America tend to use some form of messaging app anyway. WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Threema and lots more. WhatsApp is widely used in Europe
Yep. The whole green/blue message stuff is so alien to me. That people refuse to move from iMessage to another app if someone else doesn’t have an iPhone, how people at school and wherever else get shunned because they don’t have an iPhone. The way the whole coloured messages work so that you can tell who’s on an iPhone.
How iPhones are often used as some kind of status symbol in a way no other phone manufacturer does. The same can probably be said for Apple and their stuff and marketing in general has always rubbed me up the wrong way. People say “my iPhone” but no one ever says “my Samsung” or any other make of phone.
Fucking Apple, honestly. Pisses me off like few other things in the world.
Never heard of Signal. What makes it better?
It’s made by a former WhatsApp co-founder and another person after Facebook bought it. It’s meant to be a WhatsApp replacement with more privacy. The original WhatsApp founders had a vision of having a free messaging service with no ads or no selling your data but struggled to keep WhatsApp running without much revenue. Therefore, when Facebook offered them 19 billion dollars, they couldn’t resist it and gave in as they had also promised to keep their app’s vision the same but of course they didn’t.