[kipple]

I hate the Apple/Google text message incompatibility — but I can't argue with the results... I switched from Android to iPhone after years of my friends complaining about me degrading our group chat experience.

I was stubborn at first, but some messages would get sent out of order or dropped altogether, and finally I succumbed to the pressure.

[crossroadsguy]

I am an iPhone user. Where’s the

> Apple/Google text message incompatibility

?

SMS works. I think you meant iMessage, didn’t you? That’s not a messaging incompatibility. That’s just a messaging platform that is only supposed to work on Apple devices nowhere else.

I assume you’re from USA (because nowhere else I’ve known people to universally adopt a messaging platform that works only one kind of hardware). You know there are and where messaging options that don’t even discriminate based on what OS you’re from.

[Alifatisk]

> I switched from Android to iPhone after years of my friends complaining about me degrading our group chat experience.

Really? Is this a common thing?

[happymellon]

I have heard that in the US people will exclude you from group chats if you are on Android because they can only manage iMessage.

I have known Americans who would mock Android users as being "poor", because they don't want to use an iPhone.

Americans can be complete dicks to each other over the silliest things.

[Alifatisk]

Scary, very scary if this is true!