Re: Why are iPhone videos clear when sent to iPhones but blurry when sent to Android?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject	Re: Why are iPhone videos clear when sent to iPhones but blurry when sent to Android?
Date	2024-05-17 16:29 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2024-05-17, Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> Tyrone wrote on Fri, 17 May 2024 00:48:21 +0000 :
>
>>> Half my family is on Android, the other half iOS, so whenever the
>>> iPhone users send a video through their text mechanism, it shows up
>>> clear for their iPhone recipients but super blurry for their Android
>>> recipients.  <https://i.postimg.cc/cLBNKJb7/fuzzy.jpg>
>>> 
>>> Why?
>> 
>> Because SMS/MMS is used between Android and iOS. They have
>> incompatible messaging systems, so they fall back to the Lowest
>> Common Denominator.  The quality drops in both directions.  
>> 
>> However, if everyone uses WhatsApp or Facebook messenger (or others)
>> then videos will be sent in full quality.  That's one of the (many)
>> reasons these cross-platform messaging apps exist.
>
> Thanks for helping out, as I'm trying to understand the process.  1.
> iPhone logs into their iMessaging Apple server (automatically)

Wrong. iMessage is optional and opt-in.

> 2. iPhone sends a short video clip to multiple recipients using
> Messages

The user could choose to send the video on another messaging app/service
if they wish. 

> 3. Presumably that clip _first_ goes to an Apple iMessaging
> server?????  (is that correct?) (or does the iPhone do the splitting?)

Wrong again. The video is sent as an MMS message which goes through the
cellular carriers MMS service. Cellular carriers are notorious for
degrading MMS video quality to reduce data usage on their networks.

> That's the first point of confusion that I'd like to iron out.

The fact that you are this clueless about basic messaging says all we
need to know about your claim to know more about Apple than anyone else
here. I'd feel embarrassed for you, except you sling insults regularly
here so you deserve the ridicule you get.

> Assuming one sender on iOS using the default Messages app sending a
> short video clip to two recipients, one on iOS and the other on
> Android, does the video sent by Messages still go _first_ to the Apple
> iMessaging servers?
>
> Where exactly do the clips get split into different outgoing
> mechanisms?

It's very simple: Messages sent to iMessage users are sent with
iMessage.  Messages sent to non-iMessage users are sent as SMS/MMS.
You've been told this countless times, and you continue to play dumb in
order to troll. You're playing dumb to bait someone into saying
something you can use as some sort of lame "gotcha" to sling more
insults and weak trolls around, polluting the newsgroup with your
bullshit. You're not fooling anyone.

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JR

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