Reason why I’m comparing those things is because they are messaging platform... same thing as iMessage.
Well, that’s the way it works. Once a user register for iMessage using their cellular number.. they have to deregister unfortunately due to Apple protocols. But it’s as painless as registering…. It’s not as if the user has to jump through hoops.
Yes, a user can. They can pick up an iPhone and then switch their SIM to Android easily… just refrain from registering for iMessage.
What two apps are you referring to? Android and the iPhone can exchanges messages through SMS.
Yes they are 3rd party messaging apps you have to install and figure out how they work which is different from 1st party messaging apps that should work the same basically on any phone.
But why does it work in a way that only makes things complicated for people switching from an iPhone to an android phone and not the other way around?
I had been an android user since before Samsung galaxy s4. My first iPhone was an 11. Since I got the iPhone 11 I never registered iMessage. I just started using the app. Maybe it was part of the automatic setup process when you get a new iPhone but no where was I ever told that I needed to register for iMessage.
I have always kept an android device and often switched back and forth and only recently on my newest Samsung was. I even aware I had to turn iMessage off to receive texts without problems.
Had I not received a prompt from Samsung I would have never known that I had to turn iMessage off and I just learned in your previous post about registering as I have never even heard about it before.
I am not a novice user of mobile devices but I started out with Android and with Android I can easily switch my sim and use an iPhone or any Android device and I don’t have to register or turn Google messages on or off. It just works and sends and receives messages.
Apple is purposefully adding steps without explicitly notifying users of registration and turning iMessage off in order to use an android phone when switching from an iPhone. It is a process that might be easy and uncomplicated if you are aware of it and it is really something that is completely unnecessary and only hampers users ability to switch easily.
What if I bought a different Android phone and it didn’t tell me to turn iMessage off and I had no idea about registration and then I had problems sending or receiving texts? I would likely think there is something wrong with my Android phone. If I went back to my iPhone I bet everything would work fine again. So I would have an erroneous idea that Android texting doesn’t work when I had to take additional steps that I don’t need to take on Android to get texts to work when switching from an iPhone to Android but if I were to switch from Android to iPhone I would not encounter such issues.