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It's pretty ridiculous in the Apple world, the will look down on you if your first bubble isn't the same as theirs and their friends.
It's just the network effect. Here unfortunately it's WhatsApp, you pretty much have to use it because people organize events in groups with it and whatnot, and you're the weirdo if you don't have it. I actually deleted my account for a couple years but recently caved and made one again because people just wouldn't use anything else and having someone else relay messages is annoying for both them and me.
I use iMessage when it's available but I wish for groups (or just in general tbh) everyone would just use Signal because it's both not tied to an expensive device and also not owned by a corporation with a track record of shamelessly exploiting user data.
It's really not the network effect.
iMessage is deliberately used as a "buy an iPhone or else". Imagine if Google refused to show search results, emails, or DNS traffic for Apple and we just said it's because people are tribal or some shit.
Apple needs to open up iMessage or adopt RCS for it to be "network effect"
Holy shit btw https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6394690
That's good news. Apple has been dragging ass and forced again to do something to benefit others. USBC, Sideloading, and RCS. If they keep this up in 5 years they might think 8GB of RAM isn't enough for a $2000 laptop.