The ongoing cold war between Apple and Facebook that’s ratcheted up over the past few months, with each company’s CEO taking veiled and not-so-veiled potshots …
As with any app, service, or consumer electronics good, needs are going to vary among users, which is to say that this is not a one-size-fits-all argument that one of these messaging services is superior to the other. What I will say about my larger point, though, is that the distinctions between both of these companies are really not as black-and-white as people try to make them out to be.
, but it takes in my opinion way more work on your part than it should to find businesses that will let you use the Messages app to reach them.. Your experience may be different than mine, but I get an order of magnitude more spam through Apple’s Messages app than I do via Facebook Messenger. Here’s one I got via Apple’s app over the weekend . It reads: “Amazon: Congratulations Andy, you came 2nd in today’s Amazon Earpods raffle! Click the link to arrange delivery.” No, thank you.
shares notifications with me. Someone texts me, I get notified on my iPhone. Even after responding to the message there, I get the same notification again when I turn on my MacBook Air, as well as other Apple devices. I’m sure it’s a setting I can’t be bothered to deal with, but my preference is for these things to be handled the way Facebook Messenger does it. I answer a message, and … the message is, you know, not shown as new anymore, even when I open Facebook Messenger on other devices.
Of course, we can’t note all of the above without singling out Facebook’s extremely poor track record on privacy to include in the discussion. For some of you, never mind even if you agree with everything else I’ve said, the privacy issue is a deal-breaker, which is perfectly understandable — especially given things like the recent news thatthat you pass along to other people within Messenger.
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