the correct move is to relentlessly bully your iphone having friends until they switch
When I was in high school it was the kids who didn’t have phones. And then it was the kids who didn’t have a camera. And then it was the kids who didn’t have a full keyboard. And then it was the kids who didn’t have unlimited texting. And then it was the kids who didn’t have data. And then started the brand wars. I promise, as someone who’s been on every side of this, the friends make the difference, not the phone. People will always find stuff to be shitty about if they so desire
Yeah tbh I literally cannot fathom. I cannot imagine giving a fuck what phone someone has and i cant imagine giving a fuck about other peoples opinions on my phone lol.
The only time a phone has ever come up in our friend group was my buddy complaining that at&t shut off his huawei and replaced it with a much worse phone lol
Lmfao what
Go get some friends who eat acid and dont give a fuck about what phone u have jesus christ
No it's not. Most of their userbase isn't in Europe. US has the 3rd largest userbase after India and Brazil.
https://backlinko.com/whatsapp-users
You talk to people in your phone contact list. What do you think Whatsapp does?
You could probably find a few phone numbers to call if you watch basic cable all night long.
I get that, but if you’re already talking to Americans there’s not much lower you can go
do you think as soon as you download whatsapp your contacts get filled with european numbers and thousands of europeans texting you
I mean there clearly is something you don't understand since everything you've been saying on this thread has been wrong and called out as such.
Ok.
You:
It is for Europeans tho.
@btbt :
No it’s not. Most of their userbase isn’t in Europe. US has the 3rd largest userbase after India and Brazil.
https://backlinko.com/whatsapp-users
You:
Oh no! I totally wanted to talk to indians and Brazilians!
You talk to people in your phone contact list. What do you think Whatsapp does?
You:
provides sms equivalent services to europeans, brazilians, indians and the people that wanna talk to em.
@shoe :
do you think as soon as you download whatsapp your contacts get filled with european numbers and thousands of europeans texting you
Btw you've been reported twice on this thread lol, although arguing in bad faith isn't forbidden
“i don’t have the storage space to get another app”
Damn tell them to get rid of that busted ass iphone and get something with sufficient space like an android
Fuck I’m turning into a boomer. Those are inane arguments.
Yeah, switch from Apple to Facebook for messaging, what a great idea.
I have an iPhone because the SE is the cheapest phone right now that's also halfway decent for privacy, security, and not getting ruined by a few drops of rain. I was an android person for a long time, but I switched over a couple years ago and it's really grown on me.
(But to echo other commenters, peer pressure is dumb and not a reason to switch. Use signal.)
My friends used to use groupme and then discord. Blue/green messages matters very little
Over here no one uses that, WhatsApp has replaced text messaging
I thought you were being overly sensitive until I read that your friends are discluding you from chat because green. What pricks. People are sticky in terms of switching platforms, so I get that, but if you’re not gonna switch, then just use regular SMS instead of being assholes to your friend. You should 100% not have to buy a different phone just to talk to one of your core support systems
I have heard about the green bubble thing before, but it's gotta be a hoax, like there is no way in hell an actual person in the real world would actually care or even notice right? Unless I am missing something, this is about the color of the blobs around the SMS texts being green instead of blue, right?
Not directly, it's more just indicative of a lack of the nice features you get with iMessage chats.
Apple "dumbs down" the group chat features unless all the participants have iMessage
Can't you just emulate it? When I lost my phone I just used Bluestacks on PC to emulate all my social media apps and whatnot. There's probably a way and it's as simple as searching up 'how to use iMessage on Android' and following a relatively simple guide. That's part of the beauty of androids really - the software is pretty open ended so there's always a workaround.
Regardless, your friends are shitheads. You can have group chats on loads of different mainstream apps - WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram. When they want to go play iMessage games they can go do that - although there's obviously free cross platform snooker games anyway...
They won't do the bare minimum to have you involved in the friendship group.
I saw some other solutions but I do empathise with the fact that it's a fucking hassle and technology is nightmare fuel sometimes.
Yeah Bluestacks only emulates androids, but another emulator would work fine. Pop MACOS on your PC and you'd be good to go surely. Anyway, the solution here isn't to buy an iPhone, it's to get cooler friends who aren't so elitist and exclusionary.
I've got an android and I've never had to emulate iMessage. I tell someone I don't have it, I organise a group chat on WhatsApp/Instagram/Snapchat, and then we do that instead because most people know better.
