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		jejfjfjfjsj 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural... What do you mean by poor quality media? WhatsApp and similar offer exactly the same kind of media transfers that iMessage offers.

erikpukinskis 11 months ago [–]

I mean SMS media.

jejfjfjfjsj 11 months ago | [–]

That’s exactly why everyone uses third-party messaging instead of SMS/MMS: iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram etc.

I suspect the prevalence of iMessage and its weird mix with SMS/MMS results in people not realizing that it is a third-party service.

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