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Right but the discussions here are all about Apple having crappy MMS support or whatever.

It's not gaslighting to be skeptical. There's way way too much misinformation, guesswork, misinterpretation, etc happening in this thread . Yeah, I'm real skeptical. I even sent you links from Verizon about their limits that you've ignored. That's not "gaslighting".

Verizon says they currently supports 100MB MMS if you're using their proprietary app. What are you using? And you're not using RCS for this "unlimited" Verizon-Verizon texting you've done recently (since you're saying today they support unlimited)? That also seems weird.

I can also send a 50MB file over ATT MMS. It doesn't arrive 50MB.

For me, unless the 5g has truly unlimited usage, data caps (even slowdowns) would be a bigger deal than the latency.

One provider in my area does 1Gbit truly unlimited, the other has 1Gbit but with 1.2TB caps (which we would probably hit each month)

Over MMS? Without quality loss? To someone not on the same network?

No way was Verizon allowing 10MB videos over MMS in 2006. They don't today. And that was the really early days of MMS when you were lucky if anything got delivered.

I just had my Samsung-using friend send me (Motorola) a video on MMS . The quality suuuucked. We're both on AT&T.

Its totally valid I think to blame Apple for not supporting RCS earlier (and for their reasoning behind it - platform locking). But blaming them for MMS quality sucking is pretty wrong. That's almost entirely on the carriers.

Edit: actually I'm not even sure it's fair to fully blame Apple. Google is supporting it via their Messenger but only because they're paying for a ton of the infrastructure themselves (and likely justifying it by scraping every single message people are sending with it). Carriers have been notoriously bad about supporting it.

Might be more valid to blame Apple for never opening iMessage to other platforms. You could also say the same about other messaging system interop limitations, too.

I have the same problem sending to a slew of Android friends from my Android phone. It depends on the phone they have, messaging app, and carrier.

I mean, I guess the above is partially correct but it's also not the whole picture. But Apple = bad so it doesn't matter, right guys?

What? iPhone can do it. If the network allows it. Same as Android.

Also. Verizon has severe MMS limits. Which are less severe if you're using their proprietary app.

https://www.verizon.com/support/knowledge-base-14641/

Right, there you go.

I mean, I have the same problem on Android talking to android friends who don't use an rcs-coompatible messaging app. Which is more rare than it used to be, but still.

That's the carrier requiring really rediculously small sizes for MMS.

If I remember correctly AT&T is still limiting videos to 2MB tops. Which is crazy.

Yes.

Because it's completely, 100% bullshit.

Oh, I didn't get what you meant I guess because people kept saying they were cancelling their accounts, I didn't think of it as a non-action backlash.

There, of course, weren't really that many people upset or cancelling

The backlash where Netflix's profit went up and it was generally a success and Netflix didn't change anything at all...?

Or was there another one I missed? Or am I confused?

Or just in general

Why do we care if people support this Nazi platform or its owner?

You might not, I wouldn't call caring about it pedantic though.

Why are you still using Twitter...?

...mbin?

Go F Yourself meltdown is probably the final nail in the coffin.

I'll believe it once they're actually bankrupt. So many things have been predicted as "killing" the company in the last year yet somehow they're still going and millions and millions of morons/addicts are still using it.

Duh, thanks.