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Android helps Apple "Get the Message"

Meet iPager - Help Apple #GetTheMessage

https://youtu.be/N_B0riy__rw

Get ready for a new era in communication (again).iPager is a device that uses outdated messaging tech, like Apple uses when texting with Android. It comes wi...

I'm not a fan of the "war" between Android and Apple when it comes to SMS/texting. The rest of the world doesn't use SMS/RCS/iMessage as much as WhatsApp and the like, so the US is pretty much lagging behind everyone else on this anyway.

That being said, I have to admit Android did a good job with this!

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pseudorandom

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Signal. Use Signal.

JetpackJackson

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I would like to use it but no one else does

possiblylinux127

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Make them

Polar

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Signal removed SMS integration, making adoption less likely.

When I could install Signal on my parents phones, and they could SMS and Signal message in the same app, it was great. Especially since any contacts that happened to have Signal, it just worked. My parents didn't have to do anything.

After Signal removed SMS, my parents just open up Google Messages and message everyone from there. They don't want to juggle two apps. They also don't really understand it. They just go back to the "main menu", select their friends name, and type. Signal shot themselves in the foot.

Google picked up the pieces. Now my family uses Google Messages, but now it automatically switches to RCS for any of their friends that use RCS. Exactly what Signal should've been.