It’s all about the bubbles.

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
    1931·
    1 year ago

    You can’t make this stuff up

    Except that You literally made it up though? You embellished the part about poor families and cheap phones, here’s the actual quote:

    I am concerned [that] iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.

      • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        1 year ago

        Kids might want an Android phone for another reason than “we’re poor”. For a while, there were plenty of apps you could get on an Android that you couldn’t get on an iPhone. Customization was a big deal back when I was in highschool. All the cool kids had these shitty custom launchers that made their phone borderline unusable if you didn’t know how they were setup, but that was the cool thing to do back then.

        • Slayer_of_Oryx@reddthat.comEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          I’ve got the money to buy an iPhone, but prefer Android for customization and app reasons still. Apple is far too restrictive of a phone that you own. I like the ability to side load apps, and I play a lot of emulated GBA/DS games, and apple doesn’t allow emulator apps on their store.

          • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            I can afford an iPhone 15 but I run a used OnePlus 6T I got on eBay for $100 because postmarketOS runs well on it. I ran a $200 PinePhone for a while before that. Bring on the phones that put the user’s control ahead of the profits.

      • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
        39·
        1 year ago

        I’d read it the way it was written. Apple has less expensive phones for people who want them, and honestly most poor families just get their phones through their carrier at a monthly rate, so your assertion isn’t really a necessary tactic.

        • Meltrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          66·
          1 year ago

          Uh… Apple has the iPhone. That’s all they have. They make the iPhone. One phone. What other phone do that have?

          • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
            42·
            1 year ago

            They currently offer 4 different families of iPhone for sale. The cheapest one is the SE for $429.

    • Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      What else could it imply? Surely if money is not an obstacle they’d just buy the iPhone they wanted for their kids.