[throwawaymath]

Encryption, authentication, delivery notifications, read receipts, typing indicators, group messaging, hyperlink previews, third party app integrations, (some) emojis, etc.

The experience of using SMS is spartan and incomparable to modern messaging applications like iMessage, Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

All Unicode emoji work in SMS, fwiw.

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MMS is hit or miss on WiFi too. (Yeah I don't have signal in my apartment.)