Edit: NOTE, I am the receiver of the texts.

So many people asking me to have my wife do something different on her end.

Beloved, she is on iPhone because she doesn’t want to do anything “weird.” She is texting from her phone number using her texting app. That’s what’s going to happen.

Now, why can’t I get iMessage on my android phone? If it’s just a messenger app why not make it available for Android?

I’d use it.

  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    It’s very funny you say MOV and HEIC are proprietary and then list MP4 considering

    • HEIC is just H.265, the video codec, used to encode images
    • H.264, the codec used for most mp4 files has the same license as H.265 with patent bullshit license fees going on
    • MP4 container is pretty similar to MOV, and is also not an open standard
    • this also means MOV and MP4 can be losslessly converted
    • Apple provides documentation for MOV format free of charge while ISO really wants you to pay to get official standard PDF
    • All this doesn’t matter anyway because ffmpeg can decode everything (though I guess it might matter in bizarro land where software patents are a thing)

    Also Android can totally read at least HEIC images. Not sure about MOV. Any of this is also not related to the problem the OP has.