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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

No, but that doesn't make it good.

The whole world except a minority moved away from SMS a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

They've moved on to specific platforms, not open standards. Ultimately, that's not a good thing. Like when Twitter effectively replaced RSS for a lot of use cases.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Might be a 10thDentist take, but I could be surprised.

It's reliable in specific use cases, I'll give it that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's great that the rest of the world moved on. That doesn't mean that those of us in locations that haven't moved on have to use the most inferior version of messaging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The only people who didn’t move on are Americans.

Nobody else uses SMS for anything else than service messages. Nobody cares about “bubble Color” in Europe, Asia or Africa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I didn't say that, but it might explain why Apple didn't say much. I'm just keeping the discussion to the thread.