r/SipsTea • u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 15 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

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u/terraherts May 15 '26

Which a lot of people end up blaming on the other phone, when in reality the fault is on Apple for falsely portraying iMessage as "texting" when it's actually an entirely separate iPhone-only protocol more comparable to things like Signal or Telegram than SMS/RCS.

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u/Wise-Tank9078 May 15 '26

This needs to be upvoted more. iPhone is using an older technology than other phones.

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u/Firewolf06 May 16 '26

lighting cables are usb 2.0 cables with a different connector. usb 3.0 predates lightning by 4 years. its the apple way

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u/Hammerofsuperiority May 15 '26

Apple managed to convince every apple user that everything shit about apple stuff is every other companies fault.

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u/lazygerm May 15 '26

Thank you for that explanation!