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What do you mean by poor quality media?

WhatsApp and similar offer exactly the same kind of media transfers that iMessage offers.

I mean SMS media.

That’s exactly why everyone uses third-party messaging instead of SMS/MMS: iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram etc.

I suspect the prevalence of iMessage and its weird mix with SMS/MMS results in people not realizing that it is a third-party service.