But if everyone is iMessage everything goes through. I’m sure it’s an iPhone bug, but it means that mentally I can count on iMessage chats to go through and mixed chats I’m frequently wondering and having to check with each member, “did you get that.” So it means that mixed chats are extra chatty with people confirming with “oks.”
It’s just a crappier experience with green chats and everything goes smoothly so try blue chats.
I wouldn’t cut out friends because of it, but I have a small iota of sadness when I start a chat and it turns green because of someone.
For kids it’s kind of brutal with friends literally not talking to people because they aren’t using emojis.
It’s not android’s fault, but it’s an easy pain to spare my child by buying an iPhone. Not to mention my iPhones last years longer than my android phones and one kid is even using an ancient iPhone 6 to chat with friends.
Line, Telegram, Signal, Whatsapp, Messenger.
Why do these people insist on iMessage?
Especially considering the burdensome cost of absolutely free.
Should we expect ordinary, non-technical users to behave substantially different? It's not clear to me that we should; most people find the status quo "good enough," and the activation energy for switching is higher than the minor inconvenience of some of your social circle having a slightly worse user experience.
To be clear, I completely agree, and I wish they did use a cross-platform messenger. But the reality is that, in the US, the vast majority of iPhone users use iMessage primarily.
It's more annoying that I have three apps (signal, groupme, and discord) which each have a single friend or friend group that use them but that isn't an android/iphone problem.
None of those are issues if everyone is blue.