UPDATE: Beeper, through their Twitter account, is saying that they’re working on it and “hope to have good news to share soon”:
Work continues to fix the issue causing the Beeper Mini outage. We know how hard this has been for those who loved using Beeper Mini, and we’re extremely sorry for the inconvenience. We are feeling good, though, and hope to have good news to share soon.
High quality picture and video? Have you never exchanged pictures or video with a non iPhone user from your iphone? Pictures aren’t always horrible but video is basically unwatchable. Also end to end encryption, which is less obvious. Group chats are also borked by having a single non iPhone user in them. Android to android in most cases lately has high quality multimedia but that’s not true of mixed interactions.
Technically apple users can fix the quality issue with a change in their settings to stop compression of images sent via MMS.
As to android phones not having high quality, your def right about that. The RCS rollout was terrible. But most of the flagship devices have RCS and a lot more carriers are allowing it (here in Canada at least. I assume we’re behind the curve though)
Samsung has enabled RCS down to even their cheapest handsets, (I believe) but apple isn’t adopting that till next year, and then we’ll be able to skip the shenanigans
MMS? Now that’s a term I haven’t heard in 15 years. American texting is so weird.
Betweeen newer androids it’s RCS now and between Apple devices it’s imessage so it’s only going between the two because Apple refuses to bridge the gap because people are so used to that setup. However now a lot of my friends, coworkers and neighbors have Telegram now so don’t need to worry about the specific device.
I’ve always done all of that via Facebook messenger or discord not via text, before that it was via MSN messenger.
I suppose it makes sense to use iMessage for it, but so few people I know even have iPhones so that’s likely why we never used it.