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15 points

not surprising, but super disappointing. Beeper Mini was a dream come true

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For those not in the loop, why? It seems like people who want to use Apple products would just buy a iPhone.

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Those of use who have friends or groups of friends that use iPhones but us ourselves do not. In the US, iMessage is the #1 way to create a group chat, and if you don’t have an iPhone you’re often just excluded and rely on someone else to update you about plans, etc.

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If I had friends that would rather exclude me from communication than either use a different app or find some way to include me then I would absolutely not want those people in my life.

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Apple is dumb but if iMessage is the reason somebody cant be fucked to message you id personally rethink those friends.

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Meanwhile, in the UK WhatsApp is the default

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You can create a group chat using standard MMS. I have never heard of this being a problem.

Like I said, maybe I’m out of the loop or just lucky.

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Some of us like control over our hardware but still want feature parity with our friends and family.

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9 points

You need to dream bigger. That should be the companies (Google, Apple, carriers, etc) working together and using a non-proprietary standard (an open RCS). Mini Beeper, to me, was just a proof of concept to show something akin to what Apple could do.

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Obviously I want RCS. But I’m realistic in what I have right now. And right now what I got was working group chats

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