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That Craig guy had made a very good point in the last message. Barring the socio-economic thing, which makes lots of iPhone users in the US look down on non-iPhone users for not having access to iMessage, WhatsApp was, and still is, the better messaging app compared to iMessage. So why would have hundreds of millions (at that time) WhatsApp users migrated to a worst messaging app?

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>So why would have hundreds of millions (at that time) WhatsApp users migrated to a worst messaging app?

Higher quality images/video. Whenever we are at a wedding or whatnot, the fastest and easiest way to share high quality pics/video is to iMessage it.

WhatsApp has a way better interface to quickly share photos at the same original resolutions (or very close to them). I'm now forced to use iMessage because WhatsApp has stopped working on my older phone, and it comparatively sucks at that.

I do not see anything in WhatsApp to let me share media at original quality, or near it.

This website says it still compressed quite a bit at Best Quality:

https://beebom.com/whatsapp-best-quality-photo-option-live/

Probably referring to sharing them as "Documents" (files).

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