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		kharms on Jan 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Updates to our Google Voice apps If you include a non-iOS number in a group chat it becomes an SMS group chat. Not sure what the big deal is.

erikpukinskis on Jan 23, 2017 [–]

That's true, but if one of the people in an existing thread deactivates iMessage it will stay as an iMessage group chat and silently fail to deliver to that person.

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