Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

  • @[email protected]
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    551 year ago

    The issue isn’t so much the message color. It’s the ability to send videos that aren’t potato quality and other media.

      • tb_
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        81 year ago

        Which they will surely do with no caveats whatsoever.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          They’re doing the GSMA standard and nothing else. I think they refuse to play ball with any standard Google controls either directly or indirectly.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 year ago

              It’s just smart business. Why give up any level of control of anything to a direct competitor when you don’t have to?

              • @[email protected]
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                -11 year ago

                Especially Google, and especially the crappy implementation of RCS.

                I see posts every day of people having issues. Messages not sent, not received, etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        -21 year ago

        They’re not doing encryption, because Google is using their own.

        RCS is too little, too late. It sucks. I refuse to ever use it.

    • gregorum
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      -961 year ago

      oh, can’t android users receive high-quality videos and photos? after 16 years of smartphones, you’d think they’d have that figured out…

      • @[email protected]
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        861 year ago

        Yeah the whole reason Apple won’t allow it is because they expect you to conclude exactly this.

      • Eager Eagle
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        681 year ago

        👆 your average apple user, oblivious to the world around them

      • @[email protected]
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        201 year ago

        iOS can’t send hi quality videos or images over SMS. It’s a choice made by Apple.

        I can send large videos (more than 50mb, for sure) over SMS from my Android phone on Verizon to a Verizon iPhone. They receive it in same quality. When they send it back, the iPhone butchers it.

        Verizon, unlike other carriers, doesn’t seem to have an MMS size limit.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        you can when it’s android to android. as soon as an iphone is in play, the iphone immediately decreases the quality, even though the MMS standard allows for attachments up to 100MB in size

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        iOS can’t send hi quality videos or images over SMS. It’s a choice made by Apple.

        I can send large videos (more than 50mb, for sure) over SMS from my Android phone on Verizon to a Verizon iPhone. They receive it in same quality. When they send it back, the iPhone butchers it.

        Verizon, unlike other carriers, doesn’t seem to have an MMS size limit.