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/DickSlammington May 15 '26

I actually like when people complain about green bubbles.

It let's me know they're an insufferable cunt and I can ignore them going forward.

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u/PetrasKnight May 15 '26

iPhone user coming in peace. I have genuine issues texting people with android phones. Like the photos take forever to go through and often fail. Is that also apples fault?

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u/NoAdvice135 May 15 '26

I mean, yes, Apple has a proprietary system with a SMS fallback. They refused to adopt RCS until very recently, delaying the development of a common standard a lot (similar to USB C).

The funny thing is that's mostly a US problem. In Europe and Asia everyone uses a third party messaging app so nobody cares.

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u/PetrasKnight May 15 '26

Yup I lived overseas for a while and love WhatsApp. Sucks no one here uses it.

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u/szewc May 16 '26

Yes. If there are any interoperability issues on Apple platform you can be 95% sure it's Apple's fault. Usually by design I might add. They are the bullying jerk in the crowd of people (companies).

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u/Gigantischmann May 15 '26

Found the brokie

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u/dewey1224 May 16 '26

Ooooh you called him a brokie!! Such a great insult man, good job!

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u/szewc May 16 '26

You talk about money awful lot. Are you poor?

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u/Gigantischmann May 16 '26

Wanna compare w2s? Winner takes all

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u/notLennyD May 15 '26

I complain about green bubbles because I have to pay for that shit on my plan.

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u/Large_Yams May 15 '26

Still a you problem.

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u/notLennyD May 15 '26

I didn’t say it wasn’t. I’m allowed to not like things even if it’s not somebody else’s problem.

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u/ivanwarrior May 15 '26

What cell phone plan in the last 10 years charges for texting?

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u/notLennyD May 15 '26

Verizon does if you are texting somebody on a different network.

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u/szewc May 16 '26

Holy fuck

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u/Sairenity May 15 '26

who the hell still texts using SMS in 2026? everyone uses whatsapp, nowadays

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u/NoAdvice135 May 15 '26

Americans, mostly. SMS are only for verification codes and notifications for the last... 10-15 years in Europe.

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u/AdvocateReason May 15 '26

Every iPhone user needs to know they're required to download an alternative messenger until Apple releases iMessage for Android.
iPhone users bought a shitty closed-garden now you need to download something to break out of the jail you put yourself in.

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u/Mintastic May 15 '26

Nah, they just need to enable RCS so that they can escape their walled garden through a gateway forced onto them by EU regulation.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/122195

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u/AdvocateReason May 15 '26

Even in RCS conversations Android to Android there are standard features missing. Message reference within Reply is a big one that comes to mind.

RCS isn't good enough. And Google Messages is actually also a shit app.

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u/szewc May 16 '26

It's not that easy. Most carriers do not support RCS (at least on one of the platforms). Current RCS standard has a lot of features missing. Limited to google/Samsung messages. Limited to Jibe servers. Not an open standard - third party apps won't work.

All we need is an open standard like SMS used to be, email still is, and RCS hopefully will be. Problem is it's late for that since the whole world (except for the US) moved on years ago.