I can't wait for the EU to force messaging services to work-together. I absolutely hate the green text bubble and how it ruins group messages, but its entirely because Apple (and all the other messaging services) are anti-consumer. I guess one way to solve it is for everyone to get an iPhone, another way is to move the group chats into facebook messages (which a lot of my friends groups have done), but now I have two messaging programs. My inlaws use WhatsApp, so now it's three. Then you have Microsoft teams for work, so now it's four. Then I have signal for my privacy minded frineds, so now it's five. Five messaging Apps...<p>I think it's wild that something as fundamental as messaging is essentially now a worse user-experience than sending e-mails. I frankly wish e-mails were the common way to "text" each-other in my social groups, but that's unfortunately not the case.
Paywall, so couldn't read more than the first paragraph, but every one of these articles that doesn't put "because Apple intentionally breaks SMS usability, and Google is barely better" in the first paragraph is automatically wrong.<p>There's no social problem here, there's a usability problem. I'm a 40 year old nerd and I dread having to open the 3rd party SMS app on my android. (The official Google one won't even send an SMS, just gives me the "Couldn't send, tap to retry" error every time I try.)<p>And the fault is <i>firmly</i> on Apple and Google for having their collective heads so far up their walled gardens.