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My wife has an iPhone. I have a Samsung S23. Why do videos she texts me look like super low res shit?? Can iPhones not text videos? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To be far, apple has had iMessage since 2011 and no one cared about RCS until it was adopted on Android in 2019.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be additionally fair, Android still has phones out there in use that still dont have the RCS feature, and never will because those phones are no longer supported.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The same is true of iPhones

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With a 5 year support cycle on iOS devices getting OS updates, ALL of the iPhones going back to 2019 (when it was added to android) will likely support RCS

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 2 points 1 month ago

i have an iphone xs (2018) that’s getting rcs, even

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because imessage is proprietary and apple is against it being publicly available and a standard.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(So are Google’s extensions to RCS)

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes but it wasn't marketed that way. Which is why there is more interest.

Apple has been blatantly obvious that they want it to remain proprietary and exclusively on their hardware.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is true, Google has cared less about the hardware and more about being the platform to run all of it. Not all that different than Android in that regard.

I’m still not sure why people are so quick to jump on board though. You can degoogle Android, it’s much harder to degoogle RCS.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Yup, xmpp is the way to be still IMO.