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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[–] msbeta1421@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I would love if they would just roll out an iMessage app to android. Ideally free.

I could realistically see them roll out an apple subscription pack to android eventually. Give users a way to access Apple Music, Fitness, etc. May even allow android users make use of Apple Watch.

I’m not an Apple fan boy, but this seems like a decent compromise from a business perspective. This meets a need and I don’t think there’s a decent enough argument that it would cannibalize iPhone sales (flagship models anyway)

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

That would make the problem worse, it would be just another centralized chat app you need to install. We would get from "what about people not using iOS" to "what about people not using iOS or Google Android".

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I ain't paying a one time or subscription to get fucking blue or green bubbles. Hell with that.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use Apple Music and an Apple Watch from android.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't use an Apple watch on Android because it requires the Apple watch app to sync with the phone and that won't work on Android.

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes because iPhones have ✨magic chips✨ inside which only Apple has... I'm pretty sure the apple watch communicates with Bluetooth. Apple just deliberately shuts Android out.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple originally looked into it but decided not to because they wanted to maintain their ecosystem. Same story as usual.

I have no idea why the above guy seems to think that Apple watches work on androids

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't work on Android, I know that. But I'll bet you 1000€ that Apple could enabled cross-platform compatibility with an OTA update.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's pretty stupid. I doubt many Android users would switch to Iphone you for a smartwatch, but a few would absolutely buy apple watches if they could.

I guess the point is that they don't want iphone users to switch to android since that would make their watch practically useless.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

FaceTime would be nice to have on Android as well, I know it technically works via a browser, if you get an invite from an iPhone user, but it's such a bad experience for everyone. And I'm sure they do that because it's easy peer pressure "advertising" from Apple users who want to video call with Android users, but can't be bothered to put any work into using a compatible app, and instead blame Android users for the incompatibility.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t think that works, since why would people want yet another chat app to deal with. I tried several but usually gave them up because iMessage does what I need it to and I don’t want to check many

Having everyone support RCS, as an update from SMS, gives that interoperability, along with improving the SMS experience

I was a huge fan of what Pigeon tried to do, but I’m Apple-centric these days and have no idea what the state of that is

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do apple music on android

[–] xxferf@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Apple Music on android is shit