The question is how long Apple will let it.

• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.

• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.

• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

    It’s obvious they’re restricting the quality but it could be that they implemented the MMS handling in 2008, when other phones could only support 3gp and the carriers couldn’t handle high bandwidth. I’d bet they haven’t bothered to update it since, and do the absolute bare minimum to keep it compliant with the carriers.

    • bratosch@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      With all the so-called innovation and their absurd price tags , you’d think they would’ve updated it in the last 15 years

      • ripcord@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        Over MMS? Without quality loss? To someone not on the same network?

        No way was Verizon allowing 10MB videos over MMS in 2006. They don’t today. And that was the really early days of MMS when you were lucky if anything got delivered.

    • ripcord@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      I just had my Samsung-using friend send me (Motorola) a video on MMS . The quality suuuucked. We’re both on AT&T.

      Its totally valid I think to blame Apple for not supporting RCS earlier (and for their reasoning behind it - platform locking). But blaming them for MMS quality sucking is pretty wrong. That’s almost entirely on the carriers.

      Edit: actually I’m not even sure it’s fair to fully blame Apple. Google is supporting it via their Messenger but only because they’re paying for a ton of the infrastructure themselves (and likely justifying it by scraping every single message people are sending with it). Carriers have been notoriously bad about supporting it.

      Might be more valid to blame Apple for never opening iMessage to other platforms. You could also say the same about other messaging system interop limitations, too.