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Phone calls or text messages are rare for me. I can't remember the last time I sent an SMS message. I've not received an MMS message in over a decade and even then that was relatively rare (less than 10 times in the years that that was a thing at all). So, that stuff is completely dead as far as I'm concerned. I don't think most young people even know stuff like MMS exists. Did Apple ever bother to implement that at all on IOS? As I recall they were not in a hurry to implement that when the iphone launched originally.

The only numbers I call are people like my Doctor to make an appointment because they don't do email for whatever reason (which would make a lot of business sense for them). But mostly my phone is a mini tablet for me. Young people here mainly distinguish themselves by maybe using different networks.

People who hate Facebook are common. People who understand Facebook actually also runs Instagram and Whatsapp are less common. Last time I checked they are still getting a lot of daily use, also from Denmark.



> I don't think most young people even know stuff like MMS exists. Did Apple ever bother to implement that at all on IOS?

iOS supports SMS/MMS in iMessage. These conversations have green bubbles instead of blue bubbles[0].

This occasionally becomes a status symbol, where showing up as green on someone's iMessage indicates that you don't have an iPhone, and thus are poor / low status.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006


> Did Apple ever bother to implement that at all on IOS? As I recall they were not in a hurry to implement that when the iphone launched originally.

SMS and MMS on iOS both predate iMessage: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Messages


You don't get sms notifications/reminders from your doctors / hospitals? about appointments

In the UK sms messaging is a key part of a lot of taxi films work flow - who needs UBER


I live in the digital desert that is Germany.




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