• CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t it the fact that there will be features missing if someone doesn’t have iMessage? I genuinely don’t think anybody would care if it were just the color of the bubble that was different and nothing else.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yes. The iPhone to MMS connection has filesize limits that basically make sending video horribly compressed, and even still images are visibly limited in quality.

      And then message reactions aren’t directly supported in MMS, so it becomes a clunky communications experience between iPhone and Android texting.

      There’s also delivery confirmation, read receipts, and other indicators in an iMessage chat that aren’t supported in MMS.

      The color of the bubble is a subtle UI indicator of what features are supported in the chat.