I am not having an issue between android or apple (I have used both in past, prefer android, but that isn't the issue here. The issue is we won't be upgrading any of our phones for at least 6 months, but she wants a iphone now so she can communicate with other iphone users and the challenge is the artificial wall apple builds around iphones with the messaging app (apparently android offers a very similar app, Hangouts, that can be run on apples). In six months and she wants an apple and its about the same cost... i don't care what she uses... and if she wants a more expensive phone and pays the difference, even better.
Ah, well imessage is just free texting between apple devices, it isn't designed to prevent apple products from communicating with non-apple phones. Texts sent to non-apple phones just go thru as regular text messages instead. There have been some bugs that have caused iPhone users who switch to android to have problems with losing texts, but if they all have iphones that doesn't seem likely to be their problem.
I don't like that Apple forces me to buy a camera with their phone. This type of monopolistic bundling behavior was supposed to be band with Microsoft.
Nobody makes that argument about after school curricular activities. Jobs build character and teach responsibility. It also teaches kids to value money. Valuing money should be everyone's priority.
It should. Except for the fact that groupme isn't cool like iMessage. Good luck getting everyone in your school to switch.
A friend of mine went through an issue with his phone on group messages. 4 of us were on iOS and he was on android (no idea which version). So when we were group chatting he would get all of the texts in its own "thread" instead of a group thread. He would get annoyed by it because it was cumbersome to follow the conversation. He relented and got an iPhone when he could upgrade. I could see that being an issue for her. I don't know if that's the case with everyone though. This was about a year and a half ago so things might have changed, or my friend just didn't know how to enable group chats. He never asked us to use a different service or else we would have. Because we're civil human beings. Anywho, the logical choice for your daughter would be to use a 3rd party service like Hangouts, Groupme, or WhatsApp but these are 16 year old girls so throw that out the window. My guess is that she doesn't like that she's the green message bubble instead of the blue. Text Message vs. iMessage Unfortunately, I'm being serious.
