(this is an opinion!)
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| iMessage: iconic blue text |
Just thinking out loud:
- Apple's iMessage is so powerful, Google is making it a big deal for Apple (the creator of the iMessage exclusively available in the walled-garden of iOS devices) to adjust its messaging platform; by asking (or begging) for iMessage to be universally available & compatible with Android devices or adapt the RCS platform.
- what is RCS platform? - Rich Communication Services is a communication protocol between mobile telephone carriers and between phone and carrier, aiming at replacing SMS messages with a text-message system that is richer, provides phonebook polling, and can transmit in-call multimedia. It is part of the broader IP Multimedia Subsystem.
- Green Text vs Blue Text - The Difference! (using the default text message of your smartphone)
- iMessage's glaring beacon, instantly kicks-in for iOS users when they see the blue text conversation, the blue bubble!; not to mention the aesthetic - animated dots - signifying the other person is responding back, prolly typing or editing the message he's trying to send.
- non-iOS devices like Android or Huawei defaults to green text through its main text message app. The green text appears when the owner sends it to an Android device, and when the Android owner responds, the text is non-blue.
- What's the importance if your text mate doesn't have the blue text?
- it means you can't do the "Pew Pew" mode. (laugh if you can relate to this)
- you can't flirt with Animojis, Emojies, Awesome stickos!
- read receipts, delivery receipts are unknown
- threaded conversations can't be done.
- dropping a file, an image, a map, a voice not... are not possible
- encryption is not observed if you're texting with a green text while the blue ones are encrypted (it happens only within your own devices, not shared over some Apple server: at least according to Apple)
- and the list of benefits not received goes on - if you are texting with a green one.
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| image from Ars Technica |
- Do iPhones and (iOS devices) trying to monopolize and trying to project superiority? Is it some kind of passive-agressive type of racism?
- read on from Ars and decide for your own!!!
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-android-messaging-google-says-imessage-is-too-powerful/
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