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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Daily rant: why do people like iMessage? - 2nd worst in spam (after telegram) - doesn't sync contacts and some conversations to desktop - lets one person have many identities (phone + email) - almost no one has pfps - tapbacks are boomer I get why people use it, but why do some people actually prefer it
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
Pre-installed Simple UX Blue Chat Bubbles Perception of safety and privacy It just works
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Zach
@zachterrell
- source? - yes annoying - merkle cofounder hardest hit - yes annoying - tapbacks are not boomer looks and feels really good, great integration with other apple services (find my, photos, maps, etc), don't have to think about backup, feels less sketchy than third party chat apps
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
If you're a green bubble, there's going to be an N-1 group pretty quick.
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
- e2ee (with caveats) - where e2ee could be harmed, apple fought back in court against the federal government - deep integration with other apple features
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Blockheim
@blockheim
- end to end encryption - location sharing - i have no issues with sync - media, link, doc management - i don't need to download/update etc. comes with the phone .... - blue bubbles 😆
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Normal people (in the US at least) don’t care about any of this. iMessage is popular and preferred because Apple is popular and preferred. Outside of the US, WhatsApp is more popular if I recall correctly.
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timbeiko.eth
@tim
Instead of what? WhatsApp? UI is cleaner on iMessage. Don’t need pfps for ppl I actually know, tapbacks are sufficient for that too. Segregating “personal chats” from everything else is also a big plus 😄
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moreReese
@morereese
The blue message boxes. Plus most people I text with casually are on it
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Garrett
@garrett
network effects and it’s the most personal / the messaging platform that everyone checks
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
🎶 I'm blue if I was green I would die. 🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4 https://warpcast.com/osama/0xce7a581c
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@vrypan.eth
- Never had issues with spam (might be country specific?) or sync. - Yes, boomers like me don't have pfps, but younger people usually do. - See above answer.
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osama
@osama
blue chat bubble is tribal. no one cares for sync b/c not all iphone owners are on a mac, we forget in our tiny little bubble
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ash
@ashmoney.eth
Because it’s Apple. Same folks who prefer Safari. I’m glad hardly anyone uses it here (WhatsApp dominant)
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avihs
@msp
Strange, it’s been best in terms of spam for me
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@mrmemes.eth
As usual, I'm out of touch... I expected this to be the answer over and over, but sadly I think fewer folks than I'd like care about privacy/e2ee: https://warpcast.com/cassie/0x1a496d8b
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llamafacts
@llamafacts.eth
Whatsapp baby! Whatsapp > Telegram >>> apple message or however that is called. (for personal chats, for communities Telegram > Whatsapp)
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Sanch
@sanchitram.eth
the contacts thing is one of the most annoying for me. embedded somewhere deep inside, apple remembers I used my university email to set up my phone, and iMessage contacts sync from there. so if I don’t add contacts using that email, it’ll never sync to iMessage
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Marcela
@laursa.eth
i like the ux it doesn’t freeze delivers high res images arrives fast, no delay it’s always online if it doesn’t deliver through internet you can simply sms
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Matthew Fox 🌐
@matthewfox
As with all apple products Very effective brainwashing on the back of their legacy innovator status
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