Did you actually read the parent comment? They consider a worse chat experience with Android users a feature, because God forbid someone prefers Android, or shudders doesn't want to spend $1000 on a phone.
I think you and I are interpreting “riffraff” differently.
I took it to mean the myriad of SMS scams and spam that is rampant outside of iMessage, not Android users broadly.
My point was that Apple isn’t caring about their users by doing this. They’re negatively impacting my ability as an Apple user to communicate with people who prefer Android, and that is a stance that affects both parties. It’s not pro user.
I suspect we’re in violent agreement that excluding-Android-as-a-feature is not a pro-user stance.
>> consider a worse chat experience with Android users a feature
Well not really - it would be great if the sms feature set matched imessage. The main benefit to me when I see blue is that I know that person is probably at least authenticated and probably has a credit card tied to that account. That in itself seems to limit the riffraff (scammers) that want to send spam or other garbage. I see way more of that from green than I do blue.
I took it to mean the myriad of SMS scams and spam that is rampant outside of iMessage, not Android users broadly.
My point was that Apple isn’t caring about their users by doing this. They’re negatively impacting my ability as an Apple user to communicate with people who prefer Android, and that is a stance that affects both parties. It’s not pro user.
I suspect we’re in violent agreement that excluding-Android-as-a-feature is not a pro-user stance.