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He/she is likely referring to iMessage. If your friends are on iPhone, there is social pressure for you to get an iPhone so everyone can use iMessage. Otherwise, iPhones drop to very basic SMS/MMS support.

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IMO, screw that. WhatsApp and a myriad of other messengers are perfectly free and cross-platform. Europe (or at least certain countries within Europe) seem to have largely escaped the stupid bubble colour classism of the American market. Possibly due to bad MMS support, so people just moved on to Internet messengers as soon as those got off the ground.

Edit: more moderate phrasing

Screw that indeed, but in reality, here in the US/Canada, if you are dealing with a group of people who are 100% iPhone/iMessage, you have a pretty low chance of getting them all to switch to WhatsApp to accommodate you, the one lonely Android user who must be poor or stubborn or something.

Caveat: I successfully did it with one group of friends. Have completely failed in all other attempts.

I had to do some quick research to figure out if you were joking. Normally I'd say "meh, different strokes", but this seems more like everyone _had_ a stroke. Good lord :D

This is the one thing that makes me hate Apple with the fire of a thousand suns. I can't send a video message to my iphone friends without it looking like it came from 1995.

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