[anonymouse008]

Communicating with likes, exclamations and loves is most annoying with an Android in the bunch —

iMessage cleverly quotes the whole message you liked, which contextually is required, and doubly grinds the conversation to content mulch

[samhw]

I'm going to make the slightly conspiracistic speculation that Apple may be well aware of this effect.

[strombofulous]

Probably, at the very least they're confirmed to be aware of the network effects of the ecosystem (imessage is also specifically called out) https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1463558823109660677

[e_y_]

iOS users see those too in SMS mode? In that case the Android users might actually have the cleaner experience after the latest update: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/google-messages-upda...

I get the impression that even without RCS, Apple could have done more to keep the experience usable for the iOS users in SMS fallback mode.