Edit: NOTE, I am the receiver of the texts.

So many people asking me to have my wife do something different on her end.

Beloved, she is on iPhone because she doesn’t want to do anything “weird.” She is texting from her phone number using her texting app. That’s what’s going to happen.

Now, why can’t I get iMessage on my android phone? If it’s just a messenger app why not make it available for Android?

I’d use it.

  • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    282·
    11 days ago

    The answer is as others have stated appl not supporting the open standard RCS.

    I will elaborate with apple are deliberately dragging their feet supporting standards as a deliberate attempt to put social pressure on you to buy an iphone.

    an audience member asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for some tech support. “I can’t send my mom certain videos,” he said; she used an Android device, which means she can’t access Apple’s iMessage. Cook’s now-infamous response: “Buy your mom an iPhone.”

    The Apple Antitrust Case and the ‘Stigma’ of the Green Bubble

    The solutions others have suggested of installing other messaging apps like signal will work but I will suggest another; Buy your wife an Android.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      72·
      11 days ago

      THE solution is not to buy the wife an Android, that is ONE solution.

      In total, there are a few solutions, I number them to make it easier to refer to them, not to order them from best to worst.

      1. Get yourself an iPhone
      2. Get your wife an Android
      3. Wait for iOS 18
      4. Switch to a messaging app like Element or Signal.

      1 and 2: Unless you yourself can accept switching to using the other system, it is unfair to demand that the other part does that.

      I have tried to switch to Android, I did it back in 2019, but I just disliked the feel of the OS enough that after dropping my phone and smashing the screen after 2-3 months, I didn’t even bother to get it fixed, I just moved back to my iPhone.

      1. iOS 18 will have RCS, and will probably solve this.