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It's pretty ridiculous in the Apple world, the will look down on you if your first bubble isn't the same as theirs and their friends.
It's just the network effect. Here unfortunately it's WhatsApp, you pretty much have to use it because people organize events in groups with it and whatnot, and you're the weirdo if you don't have it. I actually deleted my account for a couple years but recently caved and made one again because people just wouldn't use anything else and having someone else relay messages is annoying for both them and me.
I use iMessage when it's available but I wish for groups (or just in general tbh) everyone would just use Signal because it's both not tied to an expensive device and also not owned by a corporation with a track record of shamelessly exploiting user data.
Holy shit btw https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6394690
Yeah, it's literally just to make the iPhone seem more exclusive. Apple loves to make their products seem elite and exclusive.
Okay, sure, that's just all of Apple's software though. With a few exceptions (Apple Music and Safari for Windows (RIP) I believe) all their software has only been available for their own operating systems. And (especially since I'm a Linux user) it would be great if cross-platform software were the standard, I don't think software can be truly cross-platform without being open source. And as much as I think forcing every company to open source all their code would be epic, I don't think it's reasonable, as much as I don't think it's reasonable to force them to port to every platform.
Rather I think that generally all software anyone can legally obtain should require any sort of file format, network protocol, or other protocols that are used to transfer information between computers to have (usable) public domain documentation, plus, in case the protocol makes use of device authentication, anyone to obtain a valid certificate for their device. This would solve the iMessage problem because it would allow anyone to write clients for it for any platform, but it would solve the same problem for iCloud, Microsoft Office (LibreOffice could have so much better compatibility if they didn't have to reverse-engineer the file format), Photoshop, Dis "custom clients are against TOS" cord, and thousands of other proprietary software. Because those are all the same exact problem as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe you're saying something along the same lines. But I don't think it's specifically an iMessage problem.