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"Same," he replied. "Most of my friends and family have iPhones. If you have just one Android person on a group text, it throws everything."

I don't understand what he means by this?

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Group chats where everybody uses iPhone work through iMessage. If only one person switches to Android they get downgraded to MMS (open standard) which is much worse.

Why these people don't use OTT apps like WhatsApp I'll never know.

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