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9to5Google: iMessage for Android doesn't matter, just use good apps(9to5google.com)

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WorldieBoi@lemmy.world
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Whatsapp

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naught@sh.itjust.works
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Interesting ty!

So before you can message anyone you have to download whatsapp? iMessage is preinstalled and is also e2e encrypted. Idk if I’d rather Facebook or Apple (who can access iCloud backups of normally otherwise encrypted data, etc.) in charge of my messaging infrastructure, honestly.

Americans with Android are left to use literal SMS which is atrocious, or a different messaging solution, probably whatsapp I guess

edit: I don’t like iMessage or the current state of messaging in the US. I feel like all the default messaging apps should be able to communicate e2e encrypted via some shared standard or something-- it’s weird to have to go third party

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So before you can message anyone you have to download whatsapp?

You make that sound like a threshold. Old people, for instance, are literally buying Smartphones just so that they can participate in “the WhatsApp.” They wouldn’t give a fuck if something else was pre-installed.

Regarding committing your sensitive private chats to either Apple or Facebook, I agree it’s an issue and fwiw I’m personally using neither. But seeing that one is restricted to a device, a premium one no less, and people are basing social contacts on what color their bubbles have and 87% of kids have iPhones due to social pressure, I am very glad that in Europe we opted for the lesser evil, which is clearly WhatsApp.

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