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i had no idea that having green chat bubbles upset people so much.
I've seen a lot of people complain online about getting dropped by a tinder date/etc because they swapped numbers and the other person realized they didn't have an iPhone from the green text. Probably best not to date someone who would drop you over that, but there's a weird elitism over blue/green texts.
Attempting to get a date in the current US scene was hard enough without this petty bullshit. While it was certainly disheartening to see another one slip away, knowing I was dodging a bullet was worth the time. I did enjoy (only once) getting "ugh green bubbles? Srs?" And sliding back "yeah sorry I have a Fold#, iPhones r for brokies" and blocking the contact
(People are free to own iPhone and you're free to make your own descicions or debate the merits of android/iphone, I am more just intolerant of the fan elitism - not iPhone owners in general, hope you have a nice day)
Weird, is that an excursively US American thing? I am European and have never experienced "phone racism".
It has started in Sweden with younger generations that wants to replicate everything from the US.
Don't you guys use WhatsApp though as the base messaging app?
Swedes don't use whatsapp. Mostly Facebook messenger or sms/imessage.
I've never heard of that, that's kinda hilarious and really helps them dodge a bullet.
Apple has spent a significant amount of effort over creating a sense of elitism for using its products but that's largely unique to the western world. Most of the world uses android devices by far.
I think they're hated because they're synonymous with broken group chats and low res photos. Hopefully EU forcing rss adoption fixes these instead of having to download an app to 'fit in'.
why should the EU have anything to do with who "fits in"? maybe i misunderstood what you're saying here...
EU implements legislation forcing Android + Apple to use standards that actually work properly with each other. (they usually spearhead this type of change)
People using android no longer break group chats or have terrible sent image/video quality when messaging Iphone users.
With this ammunition gone, teens stop using it to attack each other for their familys (lack of) income. Ie those kids 'fit in' better.
Oh, OK. I did misunderstand what was being said. Thank you for clarifying.
I'd say it's people using Apple that break group chats, since Apple doesn't utilize SMS/MMS correctly.
Not Android's fault that Apple butchers MMS quality.
Though carriers have some culpability here, even if a carrier allowed higher quality MMS (Verizon), iPhone still wouldn't use that capability, while Android can if configured to do so.
Thats a fair argument; though in this context it's more about how the teens causing social issues perceive it.
It's not the Iphone users getting picked on in schools.
In the US, every millenial is a communist until a green bubble shows up in the group chat... then the poverty jokes commence
Millennials are pushing 40
Oof, that hurts.
gen z*
Dumb kids are always dumb. And cruel.
People are dumb af
Doesn't bother me at all.
The issue isn't so much the message color. It's the ability to send videos that aren't potato quality and other media.
It’s all the other features in iMessage that android users “ruin” in group chats. Things like read receipts, typing indicators, reactions, animated/spoiler text messages, sending media in full quality, etc… A single android user is enough to downgrade an entire group chat, so apple users tend to be a little bit resentful.
It’d be a little bit like if one person on a Discord server disabled all the fun parts of Discord, and it killed the functionality for everyone on that server. Now nobody in the server can add fun little reactions to messages, or start threads, or send embedded gifs. All because that one person decided they didn’t like it.
More like "all because Discord decided to remove those things from anyone not using Windows"
Nothing in this scenario is in the users hands, it's all Apple, what any given user likes or want makes no difference.
This shit seems like a perfect target for an antitrust suit, no?
Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit antitrust violations too fast and numerous for the legal systems to keep up.
That and they spy on consumers for the US government so that gives them free passes at a lot of things.
Well it is because that bubble color on Apple means issues for people on Apple devices.
I have millenial family members, they hear it from their peers. Probably even worse in younger folks.
This is a good video explaining things, for anyone who doesn't know about the situation Apple created.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
Alternative 🔗:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
https://piped.video/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
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