In the US? Friends.
You will literally lose out on social activities bc of SMS.
You will literally lose out on social activities bc of SMS.
You may as well say that not owning a BMW will lose you potential friends because some BMW drivers will sneer at you. Maybe that's true, but who's loss is that really?
Little things add up. Now you’re missing inside jokes, impromptu plans, etc.
So because you weren't an asshole, you were willing to adapt to his use of android. Doesn't that illustrate my point? People who aren't assholes are willing to be flexible. If you had insisted on airdrop or nothing, that would be different.
> but he refused
It sounds like he didn't think the picture was important and only wanted the license plate number. This isn't an android/iphone matter at all.
As an example; =maybe you have a family/friend group chat of 8 members and you're planning a birthday party or an event. If everyone is in the ecosystem, you can seamless share notes, todo's, hi-res pictures, videos, locations, etc.
Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are - you take the one person that's not on iMessages (and so preventing the group from using the tools) out of the group and say "Make sure to update so and so on the Notes here" or something. It's a practical decision. Often, that one Android user is the only one on Signal or WhatsApp. So to share pictures, you make a group of everyone on iMessage and send the videos and album over, and then send a separate WhatsApp to that person.
And sometimes you accidentally forget to send that seperate message.
The right answer is to all agree on a fully featured messaging app (For most non-US that's WhatsApp), or for the default messaging to be upgraded.
Then you get to RCS - which Google is now pushing, after going through a dozen (or two?) of their own attempts to lock users in with a bewildering array of conflicting messaging apps.
Apple should support it, although it's a bit rich to see Google try to "shame" Apple into it only because the failed at their execution.
The reason is lack of interest in the details of their very important daily-use tools, instead defaulting to what they are handed.
Happens for many reasons, but none have ever been compelling enough to me to not care about what goes into my vehicle, communications, housing etc and then complain afterward that I didn't know.
Is this a good heuristic for acceptable behavior?
Queue the onslaught of empathetic "get better friends lol" -- except I've seen this behaviour across so many social circles that even if it was a viable suggestion, there's no certainty the next group would be any better.
The phenomenon you're commenting on/describing happens often, perhaps is even common. But it is not ubiquitous.
From people who don't know it's an intentional limitation by Apple.
aka, mostly nontechnical people.
Experiencing this sort of behavior keeps me from believing I am an understanding person.