It’s all about the bubbles.

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

  • Surdon@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    The green text peer pressure means nothing to me, but you are 100% spot on about the ecosystem driving sales. My whole family uses apple and I get left out of so many group chats and face times that I’ve actually considered switching to Apple even though I’m a die hard Note fan. Apples hardware may be nothing special, but they have a killer feature in their seamless, closed ecosystem, and they know it. At the end of the day, a phones job is to communicate, and Apple does that seemlessly- with other Apple devices

    • Robaque@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s a slippery slope though. Unless you own a mac or pay subscribe to icloud storage tranferring photos and other files off your phone is gonna be a pain. Also, unless you get a mac with enough storage space it’s also gonna be a pain because iphotos doesn’t support direct transfer to external drives, so you gotta use image capture which is ridiculously barebones.

      • Surdon@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Wait you can’t transfer images directly to external harddrives?? Honestly I genuinely wonder why people put up with this shit

        • Robaque@feddit.itEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          On macs, only with image capture, which is very subpar

          No wonder they make people pay so much for extra storage loool

    • floppade [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s what lured me in and also why I left. I wanted devices that worked together for accessibility reasons, not because I wanted to be on some over engineered chat network that only works with itself.