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	2024-05-19 19:10 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<lav151FjfemU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2024-05-19, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-05-19, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>> > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> On 2024-05-17, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>> >> > Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
>> >> > [...]
>> >> >> 2. Is the video downsized on the iPhone, Apple servers or
>> >> >> carrier servers?
>> >> >
>> >> >   As we don't use MMS in the real world, 
>> >> 
>> >> MMS has only been in use on mobile phones since 2002, and is still
>> >> in use by people all over the world today, though certainly not as
>> >> much as previous years, especially since more robust and
>> >> feature-packed internet messaging apps gained popularity - but
>> >> make no mistake, it is still used in the real world (and is what
>> >> we are discussing in this very thread).
>> >
>> >   My comment was just a tongue-in-cheek, because MMS is mostly only
>> >   used in the US (and NA?), because the rest of the world uses
>> >   modern Instant Messaging platforms, such as WhatsApp. For the
>> >   rest of the world, the use of iMessage is rare and the use of MMS
>> >   is even rarer.
>> >
>> >   This has been hashed and rehashed over and over again in these
>> >   groups, so please don't rehash it again.
>> 
>> Arlen is the one rehashing this yet again in the Apple newsgroups.
>> We've all been through this (and very similar) discussions with him
>> before here, but Arlen continues to harp on iMessage always in
>> slightly different contexts, and always in an attempt to cast Apple
>> in a bad light. Just because I was tired of his bullshit this time
>> and spent time correcting it doesn't mean I'm the one rehashing
>> anything. ?
>
>   Sorry. Mixup.
>   
>   I meant not rehashing the use of MMS. Because it's *not* "still in
>   use by people all over the world today". Yes, you added "though
>   certainly not as much as previous years", but those "previous years"
>   are more like a decade (or more), because in the rest of the world,
>   especially the 'western' world, the use of MMS has been close to
>   zero for many, many years.

That's simply untrue. Just last weekend, my mom told me her friend who
uses an Android phone asked her why a video from someone else came
through very low quality, and I had to explain to her that the video was
sent as an MMS. People do still use SMS/MMS messaging today. It's not
nearly as popular as it once was, but people do still use it:

<https://www.statista.com/statistics/185879/number-of-text-messages-in-the-united-states-since-2005/>

That's only the United States. Globally the number is way larger:

<https://www.sellcell.com/blog/how-many-text-messages-are-sent-a-day-2023-statistics/>

>   Thanks again for your corrections on my assumptions/guesses.

Welcome, though I'm mainly participating to combat Arlen's trolling and
disinformation.

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