I have the Withings and it works well as a digital scale. However, I think it’s body composition measurements/calculations are bogus. It thinks I have a 3.8% bone mass, which would be 6.7 lbs. That’s right it thinks I’m some kind of bird cryptid.

Your friend is right about open source as an idea and companies like Apple being antithetical to that idea. However, unless you have the time and determination to make a hobby out of it, just keep using whatever tech works for you. I say this as a Linux and Android user who really dislikes Apple’s walled garden. Your choices as an individual consumer will only significantly matter to you.

They could still keep iMessage, but just automatically fall back to RCS instead of SMS/MMS. God forbid!

The app integration is fine, although I don’t know what integration with a payment app is supposed to accomplish. I was confused about it when Signal tried to incorporate a payment feature. Rcs group chat encryption is supposed to be there, but I don’t have any groups to test it where everyone is using a compatible messaging app.

Oh that would be some progress.

I tried for years. I’m over it.

It doesn’t even occur to them that they also break features on the Android users’ ends as well, but I only see iPhone users complaining. It really isn’t that big of a deal to share a file over SMS/MMS with a link rather than trying to share the actual file directly. Is that difficult to do on an iPhone?

I might set it up, since I already use Instagram, but I’m not sure how much I’ll use it.

• I already have accounts on mastodon.social and jorts.horse, so what’s the point for me?
• I wouldn’t be able to post to Threads like I do to Twitter since my family are all on Instagram. They wouldn’t get it.

Are you implying that the RCS that comes with Google Messages is significantly less modern than whatever ships with iPhones?

Edit: Or, are you saying that most Android users wouldn’t care if that was the case?

The point is that it’s not really Android users’ problem. There are options for iPhone users and, yes, if they really want to use the native iPhone messaging app they can complain to Tim Apple. Cc: @FuckFashMods@lib.lgbt

I never understood the complaint. If iPhone users don’t like the way Apple messaging works with Android contacts, they can just use an alternative like Whatsapp. Right?

Interesting, but don’t you think they’ll just wall it off like how truthsocial.com is walled off?