So today I watched a YouTube video about iMessage lock in

So today I watched a YouTube video about iMessage lock in, and it was an unfair reminder of the Apple bullshit I experience as an Android user.

Just like… the experience of being added to an iMessage group chat as an Android user is enough to make someone want to switch to an iPhone, and I don’t know how that nonsense isn’t breaking monopoly laws.

This is a the iMessage experience on Android, in a nutshell (100% speaking from personal experience).

  1. Idiot iPhone user collects a bunch of phone numbers and creates a group text, not realizing that 1) not everyone has an iPhone and 2) you can’t do group chats over SMS so in effect they’re 3) creating an iMessage group chat with Android users in it, except iMessage isn’t multiplatform.

  2. Completely unaware that this has occurred, you start receiving several individual text messages from different phone numbers which all appear to be discussing the same thing.

    And it’s VERY ANNOYING.

  3. Because SMS a) doesn’t support group messaging and b) doesn’t support reactions, every time someone reacts to a message you receive a text that says “Liked (insert content of the message they reacted to)”. So if ten people react to the same message, you then get 10 identical messages from TEN DIFFERENT phone numbers.

  4. Because SMS doesn’t support group messaging, you CANNOT LEAVE THE GROUP CHAT. Because from your end, no group exists.

  5. Because SMS doesn’t support group messaging, you cant actually participate in the conversation because you can only send messages to one person at a time.

  6. Now you have to figure out who started the group chat and get them to remove you so you can live in peace, since you can’t participate in or follow the conversation anyway.

  7. ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED BY USING A THIRD PARTY MESSAGING APP.