Android vs. Apple

[KevinG]

Now that Apple has listened to the leftists and their fear of firearms - the revolver emoji will be replaced with a squirtgun, yes a squirtgun. Thinking of making the change back to android due to my political beliefs...

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[HISSMAN]

It's ironic that the company acting less like a liberal robot is the one with an OS called Android.

 

[dgc333]

The big reason for imessages is that you can send much higher quality photos and videos through that system, than other text apps. BiteSMS used to have a pay server option that let you do that, but unfortunately it isn't supported in the newer OS.

Gee the texting App on my Android phone asks me if I want to send the pictures in small, medium or actual file size format.

 

[HISSMAN]

Gee the texting App on my Android phone asks me if I want to send the pictures in small, medium or actual file size format.

That it does. But if someone is sending you a video or pic through iMessages to your Android it come in very compressed.

 

[dgc333]

My wife's iPhone 6s doesn't even give her the option of using iMessage when sending a text to me. My understanding is iMessage is only for iPhone to iPhone.

 

[MaskedRacerX]

My wife's iPhone 6s doesn't even give her the option of using iMessage when sending a text to me. My understanding is iMessage is only for iPhone to iPhone.

That's not the case.

Messages supports SMS, MMS to non-iOS clients (and as a low bandwidth fallback mode) and the iOS specific messaging service. It also provides relay across multiple platforms so I can handoff between OSX and [multiple] iOS clients

 

[dgc333]

That's not the case.

Messages supports SMS, MMS to non-iOS clients (and as a low bandwidth fallback mode) and the iOS specific messaging service. It also provides relay across multiple platforms so I can handoff between OSX and [multiple] iOS clients

Of course the iPhone messaging app supports SMS and MMS but that is not iMessage. iMessage is a iPhone to iPhone feature that works with the Messaging app and can be turned on or off in settings.

When you send a text or file to another iPhone with iMessage turned on it uses your data plan to transfer the text and files. If you send a send a text or file to another iPhone with iMessage off or to an Android phone it goes as an SMS or MMS using your texting plan.

It is easy to tell what is going on, it will say iMessage in the text box you type your message and your messages in the thread will be blue. If it is SMS/MMS the box will say text message and your messages in the thread will be green.

When Apple first introduced iMessage they made a big deal out of the fact you were not using your text plan with iMessage.

My original comment was surprise that the iPhone compresses pictures that are being sent via MMS where as my Android phone asks if you want to compress them or not. IMHO, +1 for Android.

 

[MaskedRacerX]

My original comment was surprise that the iPhone compresses pictures that are being sent via MMS where as my Android phone asks if you want to compress them or not. IMHO, +1 for Android.

Gotcha.

I've been a developer/architect/writer for 25+ years, web/mobile/infrastructure/embedded (now 3D/CV/DV), everyone doesn't always get how the technology works, and I tend to take for granted they don't, or do as the case may be.

FTR, MMS is carrier dependent, like Verizon MMS on LTE is [I believe] 1200K (so on that example, if uncompressed photos are reaching recipients they're under 1.2M, via JPG compression, etc.)

I have a Note, S5/6, mostly for Samsung gear VR dev, still prefer the iPhone 6S+ for my everyday carry

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