[Justsignedup]

its more than a shame. emoji, gifs and images are a core part of teens' communications (I have one, I know all too well), and iMessage's green bubble is also a guarantee that these things won't work, so its not just a shame, it is a hard road block.

Fortunately a lot of teens moved to discord.

[Jtsummers]

Based on all the messages I get from my work colleagues (mostly android users much more into memes and things than I am), gifs and emojis and other features work just fine these days with MMS messaging on iPhone.

[canucker2016]

When iMessage has to send a pic or vid to a group that contains non-iMessage recipients, iMessage will fallback to MMS and may need to recompress the pic/vid to get under the MMS media limit.

MMS, introduced in 2002, has much lower limits for pictures/video than if the messaging apps were to send the media over data/internet.

Also these MMS media limits aren't hardcoded, the limits are set by the sending and receiving carriers.

see https://www.androidpolice.com/why-text-message-videos-look-b...

[fsckboy]

videos taken on your or their phones don't show up postage stamp sized and blurry/bricky any more? that's usually how a green bubble drags an iphone group down

although the "liked your message" type stuff is also annoying.

[lazycouchpotato]

Google thankfully added a workaround/fix for that. "Liked your message" shows up as a reaction on Google Messages.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/googles-message-app-can-no...

In fact, the role's been reversed - the iPhone user now gets the "liked your message" text message while on Google Messages it shows up as a reaction.