• Poggervania@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Adding to this, people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

    We’re also apparently the largest userbase of iMessage, whereas the rest of the world has more sense to use third-party apps to talk to family and friends from around the world.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      people Some/many iPhone users in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

      Ftfy.

      Plus, the iMessage approach is the right answer. A single messaging app that will use a modern network-based comm channel with anyone who has the capability, with a fallback to SMS/MMS for those who don’t.

      Which Signal was doing until this year, unfortunately.

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.

      Children. Children do that.