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Android phones (and iPhones too, for that matter) can have third-party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Zoom, Skype, WeChat, Viber, etc installed.
iMessage absolutely pales in comparison to Telegram.
And all of those still aren’t Facetime & iMessage. The fact that’s they’re third party apps is friction enough. The fact that you don’t need an android to use them is enough. The fact that this takes place in America so I doesn’t matter what other countries use is enough.
It’s like this: Nearby Share will never be superior to Airdrop since not every android comes with it. It’s superiority doesn’t come in that it could be a superior service, it comes in that’s its available out of the box no configuration necessary. Every iPhone user is able to use because every iPhone user has it. There’s no installation required to get it and it’s easy to use in less than 5 seconds.
> iMessage absolutely pales in comparison to Telegram.
Telegram is great. I like telegram. I would never ask for someone’s telegram. Here’s a little known social media secret for telegram: it’s notoriously used for porn.
who cares? you may as well stop using the internet at all, if that is your argument.
people who look for this stuff will find it. avoiding telegram is not going to help. nor is using telegram making it any easier. you don't accidentally run into that.
Clearly not enough friction for the rest of the world.
> The fact that you don’t need an android to use them is enough
But you need an iPhone for FaceTime and iMessage, and iPhones are non-trivial expenditures in many parts of the world.
> The fact that this takes place in America so I doesn’t matter what other countries use is enough
There are a lot of things wrong with the US, and this strange submission to megacorpos is amongst them.
> Nearby Share will never be superior to Airdrop since not every android comes with it
I concede Airdrop is very useful. But most people I know also use Telegram to share files.
> Here’s a little known social media secret for telegram: it’s notoriously used for porn
Hmmm...
> little-known
> notorious
A bit of a logical disconnect there, but anyway: who cares that it's used for porn? Like another commenter said, if people look for it, they will find it. Reddit has porn on it too; so does (did?) Tumblr and Twitter.
This is solely an American problem manufactured by Americans for Americans, and catalysed by the excessive vapidity and superficiality of social media. You lot appear to like shooting yourselves in the foot a lot (sometimes, not even figuratively).
Ergo the bullying that OP's son is experiencing. Android phones have rivalled iPhones in price for a long time now.