Samsung going all in on Google Messages in US, stops pre-installing Samsung Messages on Galaxy phones - eviltoast

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17792695

After slowly phasing the app out in some regions, Samsung has announced that it will no longer pre-install Samsung Messages…

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    From the point of view of an Android user, iMessage falls back to SMS/MMS protocols, so when an iPhone user would click the heart reaction button in iMessage, you’d get a text message that says “Flig Fligerson loves your message.”

    Instead of pushing a client to other platforms, they deliberately just made the experience shit. I really don’t see the appeal in Apple products.