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Also, ?reverse? network effect. Even if i message someone whom I know they have an iPhone I'll use WhatsApp because I want to have all my conversations in the same place.

The only time i explicitly use iMessage is when I want to send a photo as unaltered as possible - wapp recompresses them for size.

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> The only time i explicitly use iMessage is when I want to send a photo as unaltered as possible - wapp recompresses them for size.

Are you sure about this? I usually send images/videos via WhatsApp because, AFAICT, they are sent unchanged (unlike Facebook messenger, for example), and know multiple people who do the same thing.

I never checked the file hashes, though.

Afaik there's a mysterious 'send as file' in WhatsApp that I haven't mastered that will indeed send the files unmodified, but if you just send from your gallery they will recompress.

I generally don't care about my photos THAT much to figure out how to send them completely unmodified.

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