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From what I understand, it's annoying for iPhone users to text Android users and vise versa. When an Android number is in a group chat it degrades all of the iPhone users' experience.

Likewise, as an Android user myself, whenever an iPhone person texts me a picture or video it's always a potato. This makes me not want to text iPhone users.

I wonder if there are any studies on how this causes people to subconsciously exclude Android users.

Even if iMessage were available for android that situation wouldn’t be fixed because iMessage can be disabled on iPhones and you’d have to use the iMessage app anyways, but if you’re willing to do that, why not just use one of the dozens of apps already available?

I honestly find it baffling you would even care what phone the other person has to the point you’d avoid texting them because they have an iPhone for example.

I think iMessage is a great example of “Embrace, Extend”. Apple didn’t build a standalone chat app because everyone (in the US) was already using SMS on their phones and “hey if you happen to be SMSing another iPhone user you get these extra features”

At this point, I'd pay for iMessage on Android. There's a lot of conversations android users are not a part of because of iMessage.

Yes, Android users do suffer without it, which is why so many were willing to pay for it.

Why and how do they suffer? I hear things like exclusion, but that’s always possible.

Exclusion, bullying. Exclusion is because they don't have iMessage.

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