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		intothemild on Jan 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the g... Yep. It's because android supports rich messages, a kind of SMS 2.0, where as iPhones do not support it because it competes with iMessage.

frosted-flakes on Jan 9, 2022 [–]

No, even without RCS the quality seems to be decent. Even on my old BlackBerry receiving a video from a Windows Phone over MMS had decent quality.

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