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  • I can’t see a business reason why Apple would degrade image sending purposefully- it would drive its own users to get third party apps.

    Depends on what the majority of people are using.

    In markets where iPhone users are not in the majority, that’s exactly what’s happening: iPhone users are switching to third party apps.

    If iPhones users are in the majority, though, then people will just default to iMessage, and non-Apple phones get associated with poor messaging quality. Which creates social pressure for non-iPhone users to buy an iPhone.

    So it makes perfect business sense for Apple to degrade the messaging quality when a non-Apple phone joins the conversation.



  • It’s probably just a definition thing.

    To me, constructive criticism means that the criticism doesn’t just point out failure, but that it then also shows how to correct that failure.

    By itself, “you’re doing it wrong” is just destructive: it takes something apart, it destroys it. Without a subsequent “and here’s how you would do it right,” it doesn’t become constructive, it doesn’t help in putting things back together in the correct way.

    Sure, as a first step, “you’re doing it wrong” is completely justified when something is actually wrong.

    But without the second step - the constructive part - it just doesn’t constitute constructive criticism. By itself, it’s just criticism.