I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

  • straF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Texting images between android and ios is fundamentally broken. Images are compressed to potato quality and did mot always make it. When i had android i sent images in messenger and texted in sms to ios folks. Its a lot easier now were all on ios.

    So I absolutely understand its simpler to just 100% use a different app.

    • bees_knees@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The image compression problem is on iphone’s end, and they do it specifically to coerce you into buying an iphone.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yep, send something in a group chat to android and iphone users, and if Android sends it, it looks good to Android users.

        But iphone degrades it on receipt.

        If iphone sends it, it sends a degraded copy to all the androids.

        Apple tells everyone it’s because iphone is better, and iphone users accept it.

        But the end result is more people move to signal or other apps. Which is a positive.

    • kibiz0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is about the 40th most-upvoted comment on this post, and the FIRST comment I found that actually said something about the technical challenges.

      Most of the above comments are like “iPhones show different colors based on OS? Weird. Seems dumb to care about that.”