Nothing Phone (2) becomes first Android smartphone to receive official Apple iMessage support
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Nothing has introduced 'Nothing Chats', an app that brings iMessage support to Android. Seemingly, Nothing has designed Nothing Chats to simplify the process of switching from iPhones to its latest smartphone, the Nothing Phone (2).
  • dangil@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Why this obsession with iMessage? Why not Signal/Whatsapp/Telegram?

    • ShogunKing@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Basically no one in North America, or at least the US, uses those. Every phone comes with SMS text built into it; there’s basically no issue going between carriers, and numbers are easy. WhatsApp is very useful for people who might be messaging across country lines, or to a phone that’s not from the same country. That’s not an issue here, so no one bothers.

        • persiyan@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          And no one in the US uses a third party app including android users and thus no way to msg ppl you know on these third party apps.

  • SafeModeOff@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Clickbait/false title. You can do exactly this on any Android/Windows device with the Beeper app, along with your other accounts (Instagram, FB, etc.) Last I checked there’s a wait-list but it doesn’t take too long to get through it.

  • wolftecx@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What would this be using? Something like matrix or beeper? I’m sure you could replicate this at home fairly easily.

    • wakka55@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      fairly easily

      Software engineers always bandy this phrase around and then take 53 hours of coding to reach a proof of concept

  • lordpuddingcup@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    “OFFICIAL” … THIS AS “UNOFFICIAL” AS A IMESSAGE APP CAN BE, UNLESS THEIRS 1 THAT HAS A RANDOM GUY ON THE OTHER END TYPING IT INTO A REMOTE MACBOOK HIMSELF

  • Semy-D@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have an Iphone and dont care about Imessage at all, I dont get it why in America is so popular

    • BigHairyBreasts@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s because it’s native, video and photo quality is apparently better, it syncs across devices and most young people in America have iPhones.

  • invigo79@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    People still use SMS nowadays? In Singapore, most people only use SMS for OTP and some notifications. We have move on to WhatsApp, Wechat and Telegram long time ago.

  • RSB0006@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    They are just skinning an app called sunbird. I have it as an alpha user. It works but can be glitch.