9to5Google: iMessage for Android doesn't matter, just use good apps - eviltoast
  • PeachMan@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Americans with Android are stuck using SMS half the time because Americans with iPhones are literally holding us back. If it wasn’t for iMessage, we would have ditched SMS years ago, but when you suggest to an iPhone user that they use something other than iMessage their head explodes, apparently.

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      11 months ago

      when you suggest to an iPhone user that they use something other than iMessage their head explodes, apparently.

      Android users aren’t in such a tiny minority over there. Even by pure chance, there should be a decent number of Android users initiating events but since even they are so obsessed with iMessage, they don’t even try to use something else.

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        11 months ago

        Android users aren’t in such a tiny minority over there.

        Yep, Android makes up around 40-45% of the mobile OS in America, depending on what site and when you look.