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Funny article about iMessage excluding Android
Posted on 10/25/18 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 10/25/18 at 6:21 pm
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A few years back, a friend invited me to spend Presidents’ Day weekend at her parents’ house. She’d invited a handful of people, some I knew, some I didn’t. “I think everybody will really get along,” she said. “Or at least I hope you will.” She was right. Some perfect, near-magic combination of good weather and enough of us spilling wine on the carpet that it became an inside joke forged a friendship. And with that friendship came a new group chat.
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On the day of Sam’s actual birthday, the chat picked up again. Kind wishes. Pictures of Sam from previous hangs. Talking about how excited we were to go out with her that night. Still … Sam said nothing. No number of birthday-cake emoji and question marks could seem to get her to respond. Another friend in the group, Alex, decided that it must be some technical difficulty, so she decided to remove Sam from the group chat and then re-add her, hoping this would reanimate Sam. The group got a notification, “Alex has removed Sam from the conversation.” After that, there are just two texts in the group thread, the final texts we’d ever send in that particular chat: “Omg I can’t re-add her” and “She got an Android.”
Ohhhhhhh. An Android. It suddenly made sense, and I found myself remembering snippets of a months-earlier conversation with Sam about phones and cameras and switching over when her contract was up. It’s not like you can’t have a multi-OS group chat, it just works a little differently. The messages are sent as SMS text messages, and they come through in green bubbles, rather than blue. Some of the baked-in features of iMessage don’t work between iPhones and Androids, and, frankly, it’s often just glitchy.
Apple...it just works.
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Posted on 10/25/18 at 6:42 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:Personally, I don't find vendor lock in and private message hijacking all that amusing.
Funny article
quote:I think this is working exactly as they want it to.
Apple...it just works.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 6:58 pm to Korkstand
It sucks but Apple needs to be protective. They're business model makes it difficult to monetize services. Even with 20/20 hindsight let's say Apple makes Snapchat style filters first and iMessage becomes a social network unto itself. How does Apple make money off of that? They already tried and failed to create an ad service built around the most robust app store. Most people aren't willing to pay for those kind of services directly, but they would pay a premium for the phone that let them do it.
This post was edited on 10/25/18 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 10/26/18 at 1:49 pm to Korkstand
quote:Funny in that the parochial attitude of the author was a self-caricature. She didn't come right out and say it, but their little "friend" group clearly looked down on an Android user. Look at the comments too.
Personally, I don't find vendor lock in and private message hijacking all that amusing.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 9:00 pm to TigerinATL
Apple designs programs to make money, yes. But, they also make programs to enhance user experience and it needs to be restrictive to prevent glitchy performance (like android)
Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:27 pm to Big Scrub TX
I'm the Android user in one of my friend groups. Yesterday they said I need to update my Nokia to the latest software. 
Posted on 10/27/18 at 2:54 am to Big Scrub TX
GroupMe for civilized platform agnostic group chats
Posted on 10/27/18 at 7:29 am to Big Scrub TX
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A few weeks ago, Sam texted me and one other friend while I was at work, asking if we wanted to get dinner later. I didn’t reply right away. The other friend later asked me if I hadn’t replied because I was hesitant about getting dinner or just didn’t want to go. “No, no,” I told her. “I’m so excited to see you two! I was working on my MacBook and the text never came through.” Stupid Android.
this is why i've always been reluctant to become a slave to a single ecosystem. i know it's tongue in cheek but, on its face, it's a criticism of Apple more than anything.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 8:07 am to Big Scrub TX
Friends don't let Friends become green bubbles
Posted on 10/27/18 at 9:21 am to SlowFlowPro
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this is why i've always been reluctant to become a slave to a single ecosystem.
The only one I would even consider would be Amazon and even then.
For me and Apple, iTunes was the dealbreaker. Just awful. I saw the transition from legacy phone/iPod to a single device and I was okay with iTunes back in the early iPod days - but by the time I was dipping my toes with a refurbished iPhone 3S (I believe - that was a long time ago), I LOVED the hardware. I hated Apple's locked down system.
I never used a Mac. The last Apple computer I used was the rich kids' Apple II in the mid-80s. I was a Commodore then PC guy all the way.
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i know it's tongue in cheek but, on its face, it's a criticism of Apple more than anything.
It is. The Apple "cult" is a real thing.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 10:18 am to Ace Midnight
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I never used a Mac.
So--you don't know what you are talking about then...
Posted on 10/27/18 at 10:50 am to TigerGman
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So--you don't know what you are talking about then...
I don't know anything about Macs. I know about the locked ecosystem of iPods and iPhones, of which I've owned 4 or 5 examples.
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