I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Somebody please tell me what’s wrong with just texting? Why did half the world decide MMS needed to be replaced with a proprietary app? It works, everyone has it and there’s no confusion. Unless you are concerned about privacy or something, why not just text?

    Edit: MMS not SMS. I didn’t understand the difference.

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      9 months ago

      Wait until everyone and their dogs gets back to MMS…
      You know how expensive they were during the upcoming of WhatsApp? Germany paid 0,80€ (at the time. Though the price is probably not much different during the early iPhone/Android 2.3 times) per picture. Compare that to the amount of stuff sent today and at the time you will probably pay 5€ per day just to get some things across.

      Source: https://www.derstandard.at/story/1747665/deutschland-hohe-preise-fuer-mms-verderben-das-geschaeft

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      9 months ago

      what’s wrong with just texting

      If you have friends in another country, it might cost a quarter every time you send a message.

      In regions of the world (e.g. Europe, and a lot of Asia) where some countries are the size of a large city (or perhaps the entire country is one city), that’s a problem. You’d be sending international texts all day every day.