• banghida@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    iMessage does not exist in Europe. I have never ever seen someone use it.

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      5 months ago

      I hate that it’s used so heavily in the states. It’s the biggest reason that I’m still using an iPhone over Android.

      I live internationally and it’s too difficult to convince my contacts to switch. Just not worth the trouble.

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        5 months ago

        Why you let people decide for you what phone you use? I moved here and every single one of my friends have WhatsApp even though they use iPhone.

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        5 months ago

        Crazy this is like needing Whatsapp on steroids. Literally needing such a crap locked down tracking device just because the US doesnt have the balls to force apple to open up

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        5 months ago

        Mate, I’ve never once been pressured to use an iPhone in the states. Not sure what any of that has to do with international travel where chat platforms are phone-agnostic. No one using whatsapp cares about my Pixel.

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          5 months ago

          It’s not international travel. I live with my wife in her country. International calling and texting is expensive.

          So I can just get a use an iPhone with iMessage or convince my immediate and extended family and professional contacts to use a different chatting app.

          It’s just easier to use an iPhone.

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            5 months ago

            or convince my immediate and extended family and professional contacts to use a different chatting app.

            I’m sure at least your family will happily just install Signal, WhatsApp or so in order to avoid excessive monetary cost to you. What kind of family wouldn’t?

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              5 months ago

              It very clearly does. If they can’t get all their contacts on other chat apps because they’re on iPhones then how could you possibly say it has nothing to do with iPhones?

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                5 months ago

                What does a contact list have to do with a phone? Does the iPhone lock you out of even proper contact management?

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                5 months ago

                But imessenger works over the internet. It’s not an SMS service so the carrier has nothing to do with it. im in tons of groupchats with imessenger recipients. never had a problem except with apple purposefully downgrading all media. my phone has wifi calling so I can receive my sms messages anywhere I can get service.

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                  5 months ago

                  Their point was they don’t want to deal with the carrier so they want to message over data. However the people the wish to contact don’t have chat apps so they use iMessage. Yes obviously they should just download another app but you can’t force someone to do that.

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                    5 months ago

                    That’s a carrier feature. I can message anyone anywhere with anything I want. Has nothing to do with iPhone. I just group texted all my iphone friends from Firefox on my PC.

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      5 months ago

      It’s definitely prevelant in the UK. Although not as much as in the USA by far.