Edit: NOTE, I am the receiver of the texts.

So many people asking me to have my wife do something different on her end.

Beloved, she is on iPhone because she doesn’t want to do anything “weird.” She is texting from her phone number using her texting app. That’s what’s going to happen.

Now, why can’t I get iMessage on my android phone? If it’s just a messenger app why not make it available for Android?

I’d use it.

  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    3 months ago

    I understand all this, but how ste the videos actually sent if it’s neither RCS nor a link (which could have any resolution).

    MMS? Like caveman?

    In this case, Apple and the wife are both to blame. This is

    • ancient technology
    • that was never really used anywhere

    Come on.

      • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        2 months ago

        Standard SMS/MMS are the de facto standard in the US

        SMS have been used extensively around the world. That’s texting in it’s original form. And we still use SMS to bootstrap WhatsApp or Signal.

        But MMS? Phones and carriers have supported this long before smartphones, but did people really use it? Are MMS free in the US? Because in Europe, before WhatsApp and Signal took over, the was a price tag on SMS (last non-zero price I remember is 0.09€, now free) and MMS (no idea because no one uses it, but I believe 0.39€ was typical at some point).