• rbits@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    The email vendor doesn’t really matter though unless you are sending or receiving emails. Phone numbers require you to pay a carrier every month. And while most people have phone numbers, some don’t, especially children.

    My mum used iMessage to communicate with my sister before she got a phone number. If she switched to Android, I guess there’s Google Chat, but you know how Google is with their chat apps.

    Ideally you’d be able to choose between phone number OR email. Like iMessage.

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      6 months ago

      If she switched to Android, I guess there’s Google Chat, but you know how Google is with their chat apps.

      That’s far from the only option. I can think of half a dozen relatively mainstream options off the top of my head (Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, Discord, Matrix, Skype), though I think the first three still want a phone number. There are many more.

      The trouble is getting people to agree on one.