>Of course you can. It's sitting there on your Mac
As I am sure we all understood, OP meant on their Android.
As I am sure we all understood, OP meant on their Android.
I have a TV from 95 am I not allowed to watch Netflix? It runs on my phone.
Yes the limitations are different but you know them beforehand you just go and say it’s unfair I can’t have everything just the way I want it.
You don’t like iMessage - we have plenty of alternatives.
If you told people in 1995 that operating system vendors and service providers would arbitrarily block certain apps to lock you into their ecosystem people wouldn't have believed you.
Whether that was ever fully policy at Microsoft, people sure believed it was.
1995 was also around the time MS was pursing its embrace-extend-extinguish strategy to the internet with internet explorer.
Really? Wasn’t that somewhat common back then?
Correct. iMessage is an Apple service. If you want to make use of Apple services you should probably use Apple products. \_O_/
IE had the majority of the market share on the most popular desktop platform (Windows). Neither Messages nor the iPhone are in that position. Phones are pretty evenly split between Apple and Google in the US (and it's more lopsided in favor of Google elsewhere). Again, by virtue of having competition and having that competition easily accessible there's no monopoly.
There's just a bunch of butthurt Google fanbois who are lamenting the color of… well the color of someone else's text messages on that other person's device. All received messages have a grey background.
Does that change my point about the difference in those examples?
As an Android user, in theory I shouldn't care about iMessage. However, because of the way that iMessage creates schisms, miscommunications, lost communications, broken texting experiences and more between my Android friends and my iPhone friends, I have to. I would like the texting features of these phones to interoperate so we can all text together in peace.
I wrote up a scenario (user story?) that I think helps to explain the problems I think should be solved that seem to fly over so many people's heads, especially when they advocate for over-the-top messaging apps like Whatsapp to solve the problem (particularly in the US context): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578101