even if i don’t use it all the time, it just feels like sacrilege to move it. i’ve always had phone and text next to each other and camera on the right. and usually a browser in between.

taking the phone icon out just feels super weird.

yeah prob no notch, and for sure no notch on the laptop. like i understand the notch on the iphone. but why the fuck does a laptop that doesn’t even have FaceID need a notch?

probably wouldn’t be quite as big

i message, airdrop, ease of use with apple wallet. and just the fact that most apps come the iphone first, and the seamless integration with other apple products.

man, even google keyboard on ios sucks, but not quite as bad as the stock keyboard. god damn i miss android so much. next year can’t come soon enough, when apple joines the rest of the world with RCS and can send high quality media over SMS

yeah, i’m kinda intrigued…i’ve really been wanting to buy an android phone. i really prefer it, but i need imessage. i wish apple would just make imessage a paid app for android. they could make a shitload of money. just charge like 1 or 2 bucks/mo and pretty much everybody would pay for it, as long as they have friends/family members with iphones.

but i noticed how vastly different the market share is in europe where people use whatsapp primarily and aren’t locked into the apple ecosystem like they are in the US where we use SMS,. i’m sure apple has done the math and figures they can make more profit by keeping imessage an apple exclusive service, rather than opening it up even as a paid service.

i REALLY hope that Gen Z gets mad about apple’s monopoly of messaging in america and decides they wanna use whatsapp, or signal, or literally any other messaging service. i really wanna go back to android. it sucks being locked into using an iphone JUST because everyone i know uses imessage and i wanna be able to send high quality photos and text/call easily. outside the country. i wish apple played better with android. but nooooo they have to be super exclusive.

I had a Galaxy s10e, the smaller version of the s10 a few years ago, and it was a flagship phone at the time, i loved it. still have it as a backup phone. i dunno how many times dipshits with an iphone 6 or some cracked up pos iphone whatever would act like my s10 was shitty just because it was android. but they were literally using a 4yr old phone that had the front and back glass cracked. that blue message makes people feel like they’re fuckin royalty or something.

so you wouldn’t make fun of someone for using one of these phones?

it’s real. just because you don’t experience it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

i don’t understand why this topic is so taboo in this sub. is everyone in this sub outside the US?

because in the US, if you don’t have iMessage you’re looked down upon. period.

i spent the last 3 weeks in europe and it was refreshing to see most people using a variety of android phones, i even saw some galaxy folds. i would love to live in a country where i could buy a phone from one of 10-15 diff companies that has diff features and be treated the same as anyone else with an iphone.

but in the US, i’ve never seen a folding phone anywhere in public. cause imessage is THAT important.