That’s a ridiculous reason to demand an open protocol from Apple. I get that it sucks when you’re in high school and kids are massive jerks about social standing, but this can’t be a serious use case post college, right?
Anecdotes about mean girls on Tinder dumping Android users don’t really seem compelling, either.
It is surprisingly a serious use case post college. In my personal life, if someone is going to be so stupid and immature as to not want to communicate with me because I'm an Android user, then good riddance. I don't need people like that in my life.
However, there are a lot of people who are impacted, and it's not always the case of the mean girl on tinder dumping an Android user. I know people who have group chats with family and friends, that will be left out because the iPhone is programmed to downgrade the entire group's chat if a single member is an Android user. This makes it so that messages don't work all the way, quality on images and video is garbage, and other legitimate usability concerns. Are super snooty, it's that it truly is very difficult to communicate from an iPhone to an Android phone.
Anecdotes about mean girls on Tinder dumping Android users don’t really seem compelling, either.