• Fake4000@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I have used an iPhone in the past and I believe anyone can get out of their walled gardens if they want to. They just need to research and work on it though.

    A lot of average users won’t do that though. You can export everything if you work on it. The only issue which is iMessage, but that’s purely a US issue really. Hardly a problem in Europe where WhatsApp dominates it here.

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      9 months ago

      A problem I have is that I live abroad and everyone in the states uses iMessage so it’s difficult to get people to use other messaging apps.

      So I’m kinda locked in unless I want to go through the trouble of making international calls or sending emails and asking someone to install an app so I can call them.

      It’s not an easy task, it it was then this would be a nonissue.

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        9 months ago

        That’s because we don’t use other messaging apps like what’s app, not because of Apple. It would be the same thing on android. iMessage also sends texts to non Apple devices.