Can't you just emulate it? When I lost my phone I just used Bluestacks on PC to emulate all my social media apps and whatnot. There's probably a way and it's as simple as searching up 'how to use iMessage on Android' and following a relatively simple guide. That's part of the beauty of androids really - the software is pretty open ended so there's always a workaround.
Regardless, your friends are shitheads. You can have group chats on loads of different mainstream apps - WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram. When they want to go play iMessage games they can go do that - although there's obviously free cross platform snooker games anyway...
They won't do the bare minimum to have you involved in the friendship group.
I saw some other solutions but I do empathise with the fact that it's a fucking hassle and technology is nightmare fuel sometimes.
Yeah Bluestacks only emulates androids, but another emulator would work fine. Pop MACOS on your PC and you'd be good to go surely. Anyway, the solution here isn't to buy an iPhone, it's to get cooler friends who aren't so elitist and exclusionary.
I've got an android and I've never had to emulate iMessage. I tell someone I don't have it, I organise a group chat on WhatsApp/Instagram/Snapchat, and then we do that instead because most people know better.
Can't you just emulate it? When I lost my phone I just used Bluestacks on PC to emulate all my social media apps and whatnot. There's probably a way and it's as simple as searching up 'how to use iMessage on Android' and following a relatively simple guide. That's part of the beauty of androids really - the software is pretty open ended so there's always a workaround.
Regardless, your friends are shitheads. You can have group chats on loads of different mainstream apps - WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram. When they want to go play iMessage games they can go do that - although there's obviously free cross platform snooker games anyway...
They won't do the bare minimum to have you involved in the friendship group.
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I saw some other solutions but I do empathise with the fact that it's a fucking hassle and technology is nightmare fuel sometimes.
Yeah Bluestacks only emulates androids, but another emulator would work fine. Pop MACOS on your PC and you'd be good to go surely. Anyway, the solution here isn't to buy an iPhone, it's to get cooler friends who aren't so elitist and exclusionary.
I've got an android and I've never had to emulate iMessage. I tell someone I don't have it, I organise a group chat on WhatsApp/Instagram/Snapchat, and then we do that instead because most people know better.