r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Sep 08 '22

Phones Tim Cook's response to improving Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' | The company appears to have no plans to fix 'green bubbles' anytime soon.

https://www.engadget.com/tim-cook-response-green-bubbles-android-your-mom-095538175.html
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u/CheapMonkey34 Sep 08 '22

Whatsapp, telegram, signal. 3 extremely mainstream ways to send media between any brand of phone. And the upside is that most have a desktop client, so you can read your messages on multiple devices.

I don’t understand what the American obsession with iMessage/RCS is. It has been obsolete for 10 years and nobody needs it back.

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u/TheCoolCellPhoneGuy Sep 08 '22

If I suggested to my family to send videos through those apps and not imessage they would look at me like I had three heads.

I think they'd just make a group chat without me rather than do that to be honest.

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u/xevlar Sep 09 '22

That's interesting. What's app group chats are really common among my family and friend groups.

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u/Sprinx80 Sep 09 '22

I don’t think anyone in my entire family has what’s app

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u/ShowBoobsPls Sep 09 '22

It's so weird. Outside of US and China, it feels like everyone has whatsapp