Almost all phone plans in the USA include free SMS and MMS.
MMS is a very common way iPhone and Android users communicate with each other here.
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Why does Apple Hate our Android Friends?
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Almost all phone plans in the USA include free SMS and MMS.
MMS is a very common way iPhone and Android users communicate with each other here.
In the images above, besides the photographs failing, there is also a simple SMS which also failed.
It is also owned by Meta, which makes it an automatic no show in my book.
Plenty of people still use SMS for 2FA or really basic needs.
But for anyone sending multimedia, WeChat and WhatsApp are leaps and bounds ahead of what SMS and iMessage offers. At minimum, those two apps are cross-platform, so you would never encounter situations like what OP is experiencing.
Never understood why y'all love Meta so much.
I don't use WhatsApp either, but it was the other way around. It's not that people are using WhatsApp because they like Meta. It's that Meta bought WhatsApp because so many people were already using WhatsApp.
Ah, yeah, even less reason go after Apple… What we’re not seeing is that they’re currently sitting inside a Faraday cage…
Oh they are definitely leaps and bounds ahead (I use Signal, personally, even though it isn’t particularly iOS focused). SMS/MMS should have been mothballed years ago - and using SMS for security codes is just insane!
It just brushed me as odd to come into a thread where someone is asking for help with MMS on iMessage and go on about how no one you know uses MMS/iMessage. Well clearly OP uses iMessage, and MMS on iMessage is a very common way for iPhone users to communicate with Android users here…so what your friends do doesn’t seem particularly relevant…
But maybe your intent was just to advise OP to try using a cross-platform messaging service instead, and I misunderstood.
Last I was aware, Line was really popular in Southeast Asia. It’s fascinating to see which OTT services caught on where. (If anything, I’d say that social media services like Facebook Messenger filled the gap here, though, of course, iPhones are more popular here, so iMessage does well for itself.) How amusing is it that Google actually had a successful response to iMessage but killed it because there was no corporate champion for it and rich messaging just wasn’t a core strategic area like it was for Apple?
It’s part of the reason why I think cybernetics will never catch on to any real extent (outside of medicine, perhaps). They’ll inevitably act up or people will use them wrong, and then people won’t be able to point their fingers at anyone other than themselves. Since people are so averse to doing so, they’ll probably just skip getting cybernetics.
I may experience problems when I try to send SMS from my Mac to an Android phone, never had that problem from iPhone to Android. Recent years, photos sent via MMS are not pixelated like it was before. Instead of few MBs, size is reduced to 300-600KBs but still useful.