[sunshowers]

"every group chat just gets created in an OS-agnostic app if one of the users has an Android"

This is probably true for you and me (actually everyone I know regardless of platform uses Signal) but not for many people it seems.

[kredd]

I’m very curious about the numbers that Apple/Alphabet see internally, as I couldn’t find anything from quick searches. It’s just very hard to imagine that it’s an actual widespread issue. I can think of two demographics who experience this problem. First is older people (70+) who have never been exposed to apps, have an Android and text people on iOS. And the small groups of people that avoid “X, Y, Z” apps for ideological reasons, are on Android, but keep in touch with iOS users.