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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The blue vs green bubble thing never really bothered me. As long as I can communicate with the person I'm talking to, I don't care how the messages are sent, unless maybe if I don't want a message to be sent over plain sms. It's ridiculous how it has become a status thing.

[–] kamenlady 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is though. I'm the only developer in an agency of designers. Yes, they all have iphones and I'm the only Android lol

It's absurd, but i get the blue bubble looks of superiority all the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm the only developer in an agency of designers

In the US. Outside of the US no one uses iMessage, not even iPhone users.

[–] kamenlady 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in Germany, at least my designer colleagues love iMessage, but not for work. Since we know each other for a long time, there's lots of semi private messaging going around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not only someone using iMessage but at the same time not using Signal or Whatsapp? Thats the first time I've heard of either of these two.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So they use iPhones, but you're the only one who Thinks different ™ 😎

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] kamenlady 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's not just about the color of the bubble. If you go on an outing with a group of iPhone users, there's a high chance they'll create a group chat with and without you, because the group chat with you won't let them send HQ photos. Even if they aren't trying to be exclusionary, someone will inevitably forget to send messages to both group chats. iMessage incentivizes situations like this which socially punishes Android users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hear this a lot, I’ve not known a single person who has considered it a status thing. There are people who have cheap phones from both apple and android and they were made fun of for the price of the phone, not the bubble color. iMessage just made it much nicer to talk to people. “I can send messages over wifi!” made it so you could send messages in school or anywhere with a big metal roof. “The images are better!” These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around. Now? Yeah, there’s other options, but back then iMessage made its hold by being able to be used by people who couldn’t use SMS or didn’t want to for whatever reason

[–] cm0002 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because you're looking at it from an adults perspective, if you go into a HS you'll see it (Source, used to be a substitute in a past life) and there have even been some articles on it that the whole blue/green bubble thing is targeting by Apple towards teens in HS rather than adults.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Many people never mature past high school so I wouldn't be surprised to see this amongst older people.

[–] Rootiest 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“The images are better!” These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around.

Apple intentionally sets the MMS size limit extremely low, much lower than any other manufacturers or carriers.

This is done intentionally to make communications with non-apple devices a worse experience.

They weren't just "making the best of what they had"

They were/are actively making the non-proprietary experience worse.

On purpose