This message bubble has two stickers obscuring text, and a real Tapback that doesn’t. When Apple first announced iOS 17, one of the new features got me really excited. After years of wanting …
I love this argument when I see it. People are like “why is the US so obsessed with iMessages? In Europe you just download WhatsApp and telegram and signal and fb messenger and you can talk to almost anyone! I have a few friends that don’t use those but we just use twitter DMs so it’s all good” and that just sounds like the worst experience in the world to me.
I only meant that particular issue won’t apply to me or to the people I chat with since nobody uses it.
(Which is a bit of a shame, I personally like iMessage).
Question: you have their number right so you can still technically text/iMessage them right? I believe pictures are the only issue because European phone plans don’t have unlimited picture texting or something?
Yes, we can all do it, we just don’t, it’s just not popular. In Spain in particular, whatsapp is the king.
Most of people have limited, but good enough amount of gigas to spend. I have 30 per month and I never use it.
Fun fact, Orange here labels it: “unlimited data (30GB)”
It’s kind of the same in the US. Our “unlimited” data plans have secret limits. You don’t pay extra once you hit it, but the carriers will slow you down to unusable speeds. And also for tethering, there’s usually a hard limit where they will charge you more once you exceed your plan’s tethering limit.
Traditionally the “limit” was a point in which they’d either shut off your data for the month, or charge you an overage fee. Nowadays there’s no fee and they won’t shut off your data. You might be limited to 600 kbps but you can continue to use the web.
With my Verizon plan, I think my limit is 22GB before they start throttling.
And I love how they like to group everyone in Europe. I’m from Europe, every person I chat with uses iMessages. I don’t even have WhatsApp or Messenger or Viber installed…
I love this argument when I see it. People are like “why is the US so obsessed with iMessages? In Europe you just download WhatsApp and telegram and signal and fb messenger and you can talk to almost anyone! I have a few friends that don’t use those but we just use twitter DMs so it’s all good” and that just sounds like the worst experience in the world to me.
The same but the opposite can be said about America where everyone using iMessage even though they know that it is missing countless features
At least in Europe folks have a choice, in America they don’t sadly
I only meant that particular issue won’t apply to me or to the people I chat with since nobody uses it. (Which is a bit of a shame, I personally like iMessage).
Question: you have their number right so you can still technically text/iMessage them right? I believe pictures are the only issue because European phone plans don’t have unlimited picture texting or something?
Yes, we can all do it, we just don’t, it’s just not popular. In Spain in particular, whatsapp is the king. Most of people have limited, but good enough amount of gigas to spend. I have 30 per month and I never use it. Fun fact, Orange here labels it: “unlimited data (30GB)”
It’s kind of the same in the US. Our “unlimited” data plans have secret limits. You don’t pay extra once you hit it, but the carriers will slow you down to unusable speeds. And also for tethering, there’s usually a hard limit where they will charge you more once you exceed your plan’s tethering limit.
That’s interesting! Also why they call it “unlimited” when there’s clearly a limit…
Traditionally the “limit” was a point in which they’d either shut off your data for the month, or charge you an overage fee. Nowadays there’s no fee and they won’t shut off your data. You might be limited to 600 kbps but you can continue to use the web.
With my Verizon plan, I think my limit is 22GB before they start throttling.
And I love how they like to group everyone in Europe. I’m from Europe, every person I chat with uses iMessages. I don’t even have WhatsApp or Messenger or Viber installed…