So there is this app claiming on-device iMessage functionality on Android. Seems cool but only has subscription based pricing. Does anyone know of a way to circumvent this?

Edit: I found this but it seems a bit dodgy

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[+] Aatube@kbin.social -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What’s the point? Why not just use e.g. Discord?

[–] eclipse@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The US seems to have this weird obsession with SMS and iMessage.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

IPhone users have a weird obsession with Blue bubbles. The rest of us find it childish and annoying. They refuse to use any messenger other than iMessage.

I have a friend, not currently on iPhone, who was having trouble with SMS (note that SMS has a known message failure rate of about 10%+). He refused to switch to another messaging app, doesn't want to have multiple places to message from. 🤦‍♂️

This is the mindset of iMessage obsessors. Frankly I see it as pretty juvenile. They don't want to put effort into solving a problem.

This same person always has dozens of notifications sitting in the notification shade. Stuff you just don't need to see, that Android lets you silence. Or just app notifications. Well no wonder he doesn't want another messenger, with that much garbage he wouldn't know he got a new message.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am an iPhone user among a school of half-and-half iPhone and Android users. None of the iPhone users I've met care what bubbles you blow and while I have some friends that do prefer iMessage (when possible) we have all accepted that it's not cross-platform and a lot of people just use alternatives.

The bubble obsession is just a lie that tech news uses to sensationalize RCS marketing. While the point of cross-platform still stands, nobody cares about bubbles. At most we just talk about how sending SMS costs extra money than data one already has for some people.

[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It wasn't a lie from tech marketing, people genuinely acted this way.

It has faded a lot in the last decade, but it was definitely a prevalent mindset from people my age around 2010.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Ahh… that makes a lot more sense.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really, it's a lie that I've heard from people I know?

We have people of all ages in our family, and we hear the bubble issue, especially from younger folks.

Please tell me again how it's a lie.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Perhaps it's regional.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Discord sucks
If you can get my friends/family to switch to anything else I'm on board.

You act like we haven't tried to get people to switch. Even Android users. People can't be arsed to change because they don't see the problem.

I've gotten 1 person to switch away from SMS to Telegram, because it has clients for every OS. That makes it convenient, and it can do a lot more.