I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

What model is your iPhone? Maybe it's something they looked at with newer ones, over the years I've never had a drama free experience transferring files from PC to Apple device (or vice versa). In the most extreme case, my clients Apple device would reliably reboot the PC when connected.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Checking in here, 14 pro max and no issues using it with my windows desktops (though I don’t plug in often). I just maintain a mega account to use for file transfer between any of my devices.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    My solution for cross-platform device transfers... create a whatsApp group with one friend who then leaves. Now you have a scratch pad on your phone, with whatsApp web the files can be downloaded to your PC / mac. Feels more streamlined than emailing things to myself!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @Transcendant @BURN I do the same with Telegram. My issue with whatsapp was the file size limit and that if my phone was no longer available i've lost it all

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Good point... I had to do some wrangling back and forth between devices just to get some old messages screenshotted. I know I could back it up to the cloud but I reaaaally don't want to do that. Telegram is a good shout, guessing the file size limit is much higher there?

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