What does matter is that image and especially video quality are
absolute crap when texting between iPhone and Android
That's funny. Today I sent a full resolution picture from my iPhone to someone on another continent using an Android and it came through just fine.
Oh. You mean MMS sucks? Why don't you complain to your carrier then? As of 2023 American carriers support attachments of roughly one megabyte. But the CTIA recommended supporting attachments of at least five megabytes… *checks notes*… back in 2013.
Remind me why this is an Apple issue?
I think Apple can get fucked
Ah. So it's not about attachment quality it's about your dislike for Apple. Got it.
Nah. The CTIA recommended support for H.264 video in 2013. But a megabyte of H.264 isn't going to get you very far. There's no technical limitation here on size or format since MMS is just SOAP over WAP and SMTP. That's why you see the odd MMS provider supporting OGG and whatnot.
The poor MMS experience is entirely down to carriers creating a mess of it, just like they did with RCS. Or have you forgot that T-Mobile had to run (and probably still is, but I'm too lazy to check) both a Google and non-Google RCS stack to get a semblance of interoperability?
Oh. You mean MMS sucks? Why don't you complain to your carrier then? As of 2023 American carriers support attachments of roughly one megabyte. But the CTIA recommended supporting attachments of at least five megabytes… *checks notes*… back in 2013.
Remind me why this is an Apple issue?
Ah. So it's not about attachment quality it's about your dislike for Apple. Got it.