I’m not convinced. iMessage offers a fundamentally better experience over SMS with reactions, read receipts, stickers, higher quality images, etc. Contact Posters just provide a nicer UI for accepting/denying a call, but the experience of the call itself is unchanged. If anything, FaceTime is the iMessage equivalent to phone calls.
Not even mentioning the green bubble problem is a US thing (maybe Canada and Japan too?). Most places around the world don’t have a overwhelming majority of iPhone users creating this network effect.
The biggest reason I see people moving to iPhones recently in my country is Android flagship phones getting more expensive but still offering a bad experience overall for “non geeks”. Most people have trouble even picking a model, and the chance of picking a wrong one is high.
I’m not convinced. iMessage offers a fundamentally better experience over SMS with reactions, read receipts, stickers, higher quality images, etc. Contact Posters just provide a nicer UI for accepting/denying a call, but the experience of the call itself is unchanged. If anything, FaceTime is the iMessage equivalent to phone calls.
Not even mentioning the green bubble problem is a US thing (maybe Canada and Japan too?). Most places around the world don’t have a overwhelming majority of iPhone users creating this network effect.
The biggest reason I see people moving to iPhones recently in my country is Android flagship phones getting more expensive but still offering a bad experience overall for “non geeks”. Most people have trouble even picking a model, and the chance of picking a wrong one is high.