{"id":42116,"date":"2024-02-14T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42116"},"modified":"2024-02-14T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:18:46","slug":"the-imessage-halo-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/the-imessage-halo-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The iMessage Halo Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hypercritical.co\/2024\/02\/09\/the-imessage-halo-effect\">John Siracusa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/hypercritical.co\/2024\/02\/09\/the-imessage-halo-effect\">\n<p>The iMessage service is not so good that it makes the iPhone more attractive to customers. It&rsquo;s the <i>iPhone<\/i> that makes <i>iMessage<\/i> attractive. The iPhone gives iMessage its cachet, not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Today, it still feels like the iPhone is carrying iMessage. Anecdotally, both my teenage children have iPhones, but their group chats with their friends take place in WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apple has little to lose by expanding iMessage to other platforms, and there still may be something to be gained (even if it&rsquo;s just making mixed Android\/iPhone conversations in Messages a bit more smooth).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/22\/beepers-final-fixes-and-government-investigations\/\">Beeper&rsquo;s Final Fixes and Government Investigations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/06\/standalone-beeper-mini-brings-imessage-to-android\/\">Standalone Beeper Mini Brings iMessage to Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/16\/apple-to-add-rcs-messaging-in-ios-17-update\/\">Apple to Add RCS Messaging in iOS 17 Update<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/10\/time-for-apple-to-fix-texting\/\">Time for Apple to Fix Texting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/09\/why-theres-no-imessage-for-android\/\">Why There&rsquo;s No iMessage for Android<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Siracusa: The iMessage service is not so good that it makes the iPhone more attractive to customers. It&rsquo;s the iPhone that makes iMessage attractive. The iPhone gives iMessage its cachet, not the other way around. [&#8230;] Today, it still feels like the iPhone is carrying iMessage. Anecdotally, both my teenage children have iPhones, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-02-14T19:18:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"8c6f9877-00e6-40a0-82f1-b37114231656","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-14T19:18:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjG-YdwDmQKCC8bNxFCMWVg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,140,31,2321,85],"class_list":["post-42116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iphone"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42117,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42116\/revisions\/42117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}