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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app (www.theverge.com)
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[–] avitld@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 9 months ago (16 children)

What's the point of even using iMessage when there's so many better options for messaging.

[–] modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 9 months ago (12 children)

"It's installed by default and all my friends are on it" - 50% of Americans

They don't need to worry about the fact that the other half of Americans are not able to comfortably message them, or participate in group chats, because those are people poorer than them that they might not even want to interact with anyways. Some of them might even be not white.

This becomes even more extreme as ages become younger, with around 98% of college age students and younger having iPhones (this is obviously biased to higher income colleges in metropolitian area but the data is still useful). The peer pressure of not having an iPhone is genuinely incredible (trust me, i experience it). I have genuinely had people stop wanting to be friends with me once they learned I had an Android phone.

Apple has a monopoly so powerful that they influence the social circles of almost every grade schooler and college student in America. This is why they don't want to give it up.

[–] TransSynthesist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can afford Apple products. I dont buy them, because, fuck Apple.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If someone offered me a free iPhone on the condition that I use it, I'd decline.

[–] Blazingflames6073@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same. My plan would be to sell it so I could buy something else lol

[–] BlazingFlames6073@lemdro.id 3 points 9 months ago

Fuck. I sent a comment with my old account.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

I did get given a free iPhone! I opted not to use it.

  • Terrible email client options
  • Can't rearrange your home screen beyond changing the icon order a bit
  • Firefox is just Safari with a groucho marx fake nose and glasses
  • Notifications are laughable by comparison
  • Share options are laughable by comparison
  • Camera is supposed to be better than any Android device ever invented, yet somehow managed to take blurry photos ~50% of the time so I'd end up taking 6 photos in every situation to make sure I got one where you could use it. I may be an edge case here as I'm mostly taking photos of name plates and technical documents where crisp detail is super important... iOS just wanted to make pretty colours and boke the world, even if it meant half a name plate was in focus and the back was artificially blurred for that sweet Instagram professional photographer look.
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