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[–] perezoso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's true. Pretty much every messenger has that issue, Signal, Telegram, etc. Ideally there would be an open standard like email, SMS and you could choose your preferred app and have cross messaging and group chats.

RIM made a similar play when they kept BBM closed to their phones and it backfired but Apple seem to have the opposite effect from keeping it all in house.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm certainly not trying to be an Apple apologist here, as iMessage has plenty to critique. But it bears consideration that iMessage falling back to SMS is a certain amount of openness, is it not?

[–] perezoso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Just thought I’d come back to share this if you haven’t already seen it. They’re at it again!

https://lemmy.world/post/976234