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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

“The images are better!” These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around.

Apple intentionally sets the MMS size limit extremely low, much lower than any other manufacturers or carriers.

This is done intentionally to make communications with non-apple devices a worse experience.

They weren't just "making the best of what they had"

They were/are actively making the non-proprietary experience worse.

On purpose