iMessage

“Messages summarizes chats, which I guess is a little useful, but it's canceled out by the additional nagging”

“The only thing in the Apple world I've become hopelessly dependent on is iMessage.”

“The part where it's practically only encryption at rest, because everyone enables iCloud backups without ADP is hidden somewhere in a footnote.”

“But then this doesn't work with reacting to attachments like photos as it doesn't know which photo was reacted to.”

“I want to encourage companies shipping a widely used, secure, native, cross-device messaging feature consistently over the course of almost two decades with no ads”

“Apple evolved their SMS app into Messages, through a slow evolution which created consistency for users”

“iMessage is a legitimately superior experience to other messaging apps”

“Apple has famously made its strategy to use iMessage to enforce exclusivity.”

“being able to easily send screenshots or photos and know they were received would be a huge improvement”

“They've specifically engineered a bad experience for anyone outside the ecosystem by making it all of their friend's problem too.”

“iMessage needs a way for a group thread to be set and labeled as low-priority collectively and preemptively”

“it has worked for a long time, during which all the leading alternatives were terrible”

“Tesla needs the equivalent of the iMessage blue bubble lock in effect”

“iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart.”

“Often my iMessages arrive on my phone 30 seconds before they arrive on my Mac”

“people don't necessarily want iPhones but they buy them to not be excluded from iMessage”

“In the US it's mostly iMessage, and that includes people who say it's not mostly iMessage.”

“Then it would be more correct to say that we "lose when we forego control" when our friends push the iMessage on us.”

“Apple blocks access to iMessage and other Appe services from non Apple os.”

“the features of iMessage group chats are fun (stickers, message animations, etc.)”

“In group chats with your blue-bubble friends, they will be easier to read (because of the shades of color), media quality will be better”

“there's no Android app for it. Instead, if you try to iMessage an android recipient, suddenly iMessage turns into your phone's SMS app”

“From an iPhone user's point of view, a "green bubble" means "this conversation will work like it's 2003."”

“Apple uploading every message to themselves to read by default is different from somebody intentionally taking a screenshot”

“the on-by-default end-to-end encryption used by WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal”

“Having one good app that everyone uses is better than the default app being sub-par”

“Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least, there is one more app to choose (Messages).”

“Messages used my friend’s work landline, even though we’ve been communicating for years, on his iPhone line”

“Even scammers aren't trying their luck over RCS in any way significant compared to Telegram, WhatsApp, or even iMessage.”

“Except group chat. And RCS couldn't be installed on a custom rom as Google took over the protocol and locked user.”

“Even iMessage is lacking features that WhatsApp and Signal built 5 years ago. (And iMessage is clearly their best app.)”

“Apple's messaging app, Messages, is so compelling it continues to sell Apple's ludicrously expensive devices.”

“Apple runs on-device content detection that pings their servers, which you can't possibly even think of disabling.”

“iMessage and FaceTime have a stranglehold on, uh, everyone in America”

“their products like iMessage, Safari and the App Store are artificially segregated from free-market pressures”

“your friends will send messages that don't reach you because they're still sending it as iMessage to the whole group”

“iMessage has worse UX than signal for key verification, but does support it.”

“imessage is basically the only secure communication mechanism I can get most people to use”

“Apple developed iMessage to work around the problems with SMS and MMS, as well as decrease load on carrier networks.”

“iMessage is secure e2e but you have to trust that Apple is sending you the correct keys”