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Imagine thinking being generally sociable and polite is in any way, at all, a negative thing.

You'll be glad to hear that SMS already doesn't have reactions

If you're texting with an iOS user and they use a reaction, Apple "helpfully" forwards the reaction as text. Which is OK. What I don't like is that it also quotes the complete text that the person reacted to.

Android does this too. I am in several group chat's with Android users and their reactions are also sent the same way.

You can like a message a page up, for example, and you’ll get a random “user liked your message” and be completely lost.

True. There's no solution to this that appeals to everyone. Personally, it wouldn't bother me at all to not know which message got "liked" (because "liking" something doesn't really say anything that important), but I can see how it could be important to others.

<iPhone user> reacted haha to your message

<iPhone user> liked your message

Liked “You'll be glad to hear that SMS already doesn't have reactions”.

It’s really the most clunky backfill that Apple chose, I suspect on purpose.

SMS is being replaced with RCS, which does have reactions…even Apple is adding RCS…

Welcome to the future.

RCS is already here on Android, but I keep it disabled in order to avoid read receipts and typing indicators.

You can disable read receipts and typing indicators without disabling RCS

You can? That didn't used to be the case on my phone at all. Glad to hear they changed that.

I use Google Messages. I assumed that was what you were using too. Messages settings - RCS chats - Send read receipts and Show typing indicators.

> The evaluation fee alone is $185,000 USD and you have to pay quarterly fees too if I'm not mistaken.

$185k is a rounding error in the marketing budget of many companies

This is the answer. Same thing happened in the early-to-mid 90s. The corporate web site money didn’t come from the IT budget, it came from marketing. The money for the Leased Line Internet connection too, for all but the most R&D focussed companies in the UK. Corporate email for employees and (shudder) actual Internet access for them, often only came later.

If only there were a better way to deploy that capital. Oh well.