Aren't 70% of American teenagers on iPhone because of the iMessage network effects? The whole "green bubble" shaming issue.
Even if that's a real thing and not an imaginary or minor phenomenon hyped up for clicks, it is hardly anti-trust-worthy.
70% of American teenagers may have access to iMessage due to it being on their phones but there is a 0.0% chance that, in aggregate, iMessage is in their top five most-used messaging apps.
And, of course, there was some teasing from the other team members about how my daughter's parents were too cheap to buy them a proper phone.
Eventually we gave up and bought two Curve's.
Never discount peer pressure.
What do you think is beating out iMessage here apart from SMS? Snapchat, WhatsApp, various social net DMs? The biggest non-iMessage usage numbers I can imagine still don't exceed what I'd expect from iMessage, just based on its ubiquity in that demographic.
I'm in a group chat with (former) coworkers who repeatedly (albeit playfully) shame the one group member who forces us all to use green bubbles. It's a real thing
The reason there are 2 different colors is so people can tell when they are using SMS because SMS are capped / cost money in most of the world - while iMessage messages are unlimited and free.
Easy, then! Let's just fix people
You honestly see Apple as the aggressor in that situation and not those people?
...
> You honestly see Apple as the aggressor in that situation and not those people?
Where did I call Apple an aggressor? Stick to the facts, please.
Do you realize how ridiculous this reasoning is?
> others are claiming it's not without any data.
So quick question, why do you get to claim something without data but others have to back up their claims with data?
Anyway, I can't find anything that is specifically about the US in 2023 (so far) that isn't requiring a payment for a large sum, but everything else I found seems to back up the claims by everyone else.
Most of them don't even include iMessage in the top 10, and the one that does has it in like 8th place with one caveat, facetime itself is 2nd to Facebook Messenger which absolutely dominated the list.
I'm calling out people for making a claim without any evidence. I'm not providing evidence because there isn't any.
I can't tell if that's intentional sarcasm or something else.
why?
"87% of teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone; 34% own an Apple Watch"
No idea how many bought them specifically for iMessage...
Fortunately a lot of teens moved to discord.
MMS, introduced in 2002, has much lower limits for pictures/video than if the messaging apps were to send the media over data/internet.
Also these MMS media limits aren't hardcoded, the limits are set by the sending and receiving carriers.
see https://www.androidpolice.com/why-text-message-videos-look-b...
although the "liked your message" type stuff is also annoying.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/googles-message-app-can-no...
In fact, the role's been reversed - the iPhone user now gets the "liked your message" text message while on Google Messages it shows up as a reaction.