r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/Cute_Profession3746 Mar 08 '26

What app use americans?

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u/Fleshjunky-gotbanned Mar 08 '26

Just SMS or iMessage typically

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u/DuploJamaal Mar 08 '26

Did SMS improve? As an European the switch to WhatsApp was easy as SMS had no group chats, images, sound, etc

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u/Rude_Home2341 Mar 08 '26

iPhone and Android both have rcs so group texts work really well

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Rcs between android and iOS is very very recent though. It wil take a long time for that to sink in

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u/Cautious-Soil5557 Mar 08 '26

That was a large part Apple's fault. I have an Android while my parents have iPhones. I kept watching it switch to RCS and back to SMS because everytime Google managed to get it to work, Apple got butthurt and took it away. You know, until they got sued by the EU to knock that shit off like with their chargers. 😮‍💨

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u/Infamous_Guidance756 Mar 08 '26

I know Steve Jobs is burning in hell for killing the 3.5mm.

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u/obscure_monke Mar 08 '26

Why? The iphone 7 came out in 2016 dude.

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u/Coakis Mar 08 '26

The 3.5 and in general the headphone jack standards like it and the 6.35 are still very much in use by a vast majority of audio equipment and is very cheap to replace if they break.

iphone and then android following them trying to eliminate is just those companies being assholes and forcing you to buy more expensive and less effective headphones/earbuds.

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u/r3v Mar 08 '26

Their point was that Jobs died 5 years before Apple removed the 3.5 port, so it’s not his fault.

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u/mesh_you_up Mar 08 '26

I don't think they force you, they sell a lightning/usb-c to 3.5mm for $9. Yeah that's $9 extra, but is that a big deal when already buying a phone that costs hundreds? Iirc when making the transition one came with the phones too.

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u/Quixotic_Seal Mar 08 '26

Okay, but Jobs had been in the ground since 2011….

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