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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)

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• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.

• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.

• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.

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[-] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just had my Samsung-using friend send me (Motorola) a video on MMS . The quality suuuucked. We're both on AT&T.

Its totally valid I think to blame Apple for not supporting RCS earlier (and for their reasoning behind it - platform locking). But blaming them for MMS quality sucking is pretty wrong. That's almost entirely on the carriers.

Edit: actually I'm not even sure it's fair to fully blame Apple. Google is supporting it via their Messenger but only because they're paying for a ton of the infrastructure themselves (and likely justifying it by scraping every single message people are sending with it). Carriers have been notoriously bad about supporting it.

Might be more valid to blame Apple for never opening iMessage to other platforms. You could also say the same about other messaging system interop limitations, too.

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