I like the notification system, which Apple has never really figured out. I like that it’s playfully designed with a contrasting neon power button. I currently use a Google Pixel 3A, because it is a very nice phone that cost $400. I have bounced back and forth between iOS and Android for years, for no particular reason other than boredom. The first SMS was sent in 1992 the protocol has barely changed since then. There’s also some class-warfare stuff with blue bubbles versus green bubbles mostly that’s because the green bubbles - which signify a downgrade to SMS - mean the text thread is now a relic of flip-phone-era tech. Sometimes the Android user just won’t get the texts at all, or will only get some of them, or messages will be repeated or broken in some weird way. SMS has character limits links don’t unfurl images and videos are severely downgraded in quality forget about “liking” individual messages. Including an Android user in an iMessage group chat acts like a time-travel bomb, rendering the entire chat through the much older and more limited SMS texting system. There is not really anything important that iMessage does that competing services like WhatsApp don’t do, but with iPhones being the most popular phone in many friend groups, including mine, group chats are often inadvertently iMessage chats. Because it is the default messaging system on iPhones, texts and, especially, group texts are automatically initiated in iMessage. IMessage is an infuriating tech scourge, a messaging protocol created by Apple that is intended to work exclusively on Apple devices. This is all because I put iMessage on my Android phone. Anyone who tried to text me would have been texting into the void, a void I created out of curiosity and masochism. For the next four days, when I was across the country for a wedding, I could not send or receive text messages. This is not something that normal people would ever encounter. I checked my phone, which informed me that I was unable to receive or send text messages. We both had internet connections on our phones. My wife wanted to text me my digital ticket, which is a very normal task that should not have presented any difficulty. Photo: Neil Godwin/Future via Getty ImagesĪ couple of weeks ago, I was in the airport, about to get in the security line.
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