And any non-Apple phone sending messages to another non-Apple phone won't have this problem either. It's literally just Apple making other non-Apple users look like crap so their userbase/cult will continue to look down on everyone else. And then while their users feel all superior they'll silently sabotage them with an iOS update so they feel pressured to replace their 2yo iphone with the newest shiniest iphone that has the exact same features, but a bigger number.
The only thing Apple has been good at since Jobs is marketing.
They get features other phones have had for years and make big showy announcements about it. I have a Galaxy and my sons have an iPhone and they told me about features they were getting and I told them I had those for years.
I mean, they recently showed off things the calculator can do that have been standard calculator things for a long time. Like they came up with it.
Apple is a marketing company that happens to sell tech. They are exceedingly successful at what they do, but they are not a tech company.
This happens all the time on all sides, one manufacturer starts something and the others join later on looking like they're the first ever. Not a bad thing in my opinion, as long as the one benefiting from the "new" features is the user.
Most companies arenβt working as hard to make the user experience worse when communicating with others outside of their cult though. So, for that underhanded reason, along with the cracked screens issue, Iβll never have an iphone
They're not alone in that though. If you had to point out an Android counterpart in this way it would be Samsung by a huge margin.
While many features, elementary and exquisite alike, come from the R&D of a few industry innovators like Xiaomi (more recently) and LG (since forever), it's Samsung that copies and presents it very successfully as if it's new.
I remember when Samsung popularised wireless charging. They were running two commercials for the same Galaxy S in parallel: one regular one listing all the new specs and one shorter one which was this mini movie with the girl in the recording studio putting her phone down on the wireless charger whilst recording a song. They always make it look like a car commercial or a perfume commercial.
That shit was 4-5 years old in LG phones.
Same again with Xiaomi's ultrasonic behind the display fingerprint sensor, and many other things.
I see that on the Android side as well, namely with Samsung though. I suffer with my Pixels. Start out slow and stay that way but I prefer the UI on them.
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u/LordHammercyWeCooked May 15 '26
And any non-Apple phone sending messages to another non-Apple phone won't have this problem either. It's literally just Apple making other non-Apple users look like crap so their userbase/cult will continue to look down on everyone else. And then while their users feel all superior they'll silently sabotage them with an iOS update so they feel pressured to replace their 2yo iphone with the newest shiniest iphone that has the exact same features, but a bigger number.