Re: Beeper Mini: Latest Android app to emulate iMessage protocol

From	"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Beeper Mini: Latest Android app to emulate iMessage protocol
Date	2023-12-11 12:24 +0100
Message-ID	<kto9rsFdtm8U3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2023-12-10 18:14, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2023-12-10, Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2023-12-10 10:38, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>>> On 09.12.23 22:21, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>>> On 2023-12-09 21:05, Wally J wrote:
>>>>> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not at all.  Apple's system is not a walled garden.  More like an
>>>>>>> exclusive country club where you get more but can also go
>>>>>>> anywhere off of the club you want.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The point is that *here* there are only 21% of iPhones, so those
>>>>>> users have to get out of their walled garden to talk with the
>>>>>> people, 80% of which are on Android. So, they don't use iMessages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Carlos brings up the valid points that most of the world is on
>>>>> Android, and most of the world seems to use WhatsApp (which is the
>>>>> same as iMessage anyway, in terms of needing to connect to a
>>>>> middleman mothership server).
>>>>>
>>>>> But even those on Android in the US have no problem communicating
>>>>> with iPhone users; it's always mainly the iPhone users who complain
>>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>> That is not so.
>>>>
>>>> Android users have to communicate with iPhone users using third
>>>> party tools, like WhatsApp, thats not popular in the USA, or ancient
>>>> protocols like SMS, which lack features. Or use MMS, which in many
>>>> countries it is expensive, or is being phased out.
>>>>
>>>> So yes, we do have problems and we do complain.
>>>
>>> I think this is a fair statement. iPhone users do not complain.
>>
>> Yes, they do, when they want to communicate with Android users and can
>> not send photos or multimedia
> 
> No, they can send photos and multimedia.

Not in Europe, not probably in most of the world. Not using imessages.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.

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Re: Beeper Mini: Latest Android app to emulate iMessage protocol "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-12-11 12:24 +0100

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