Comment on The story of Darth BlueBubbles the Wise

• mulcahey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In my case, I worked for someone who only communicated via iMessage. When I got hired they said, “Either get an iPhone or figure out some magical way to get iMessage on Android.”

  Abracadabra mfer

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  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s some bullshit. What was the job?

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    • mulcahey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wish I could say! But many influential people in tech/media/politics are iMessage diehards, and she was no exception

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      • nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’d respond “If it is required for the job, send me a business phone that has imessage”. I hope that you didn’t subsidize their business expense on your own dime

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• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Young Americans

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• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yea in the UK most people use Whatsapp regardless of their platform so this has no meaning. That has its own issues but you never hear people talking about blue text bubbles.

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  • Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m in the UK too and the gradual shift to WhatsApp has been a relief considering it used to be WhatsApp, Snapchat, messenger, Instagram, iMessage and twitter about ten years ago, not that anyone did all of them.

    It’s a shame it’s meta but it’s so nice that it’s not a huge pile of useless features, just a few.

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Twitter never took off in my area for some reason but lot of people I knew used Facebook messenger about 10 years ago which was a pain. I’m pretty sure the popularity of Whatsapp is thanks to Vodafone. They had contracts years ago that allowed unlimited use of Whatsapp without affecting your data usage. This lead a lot of people to believe that happens on all contracts. I still can’t convince my Grandma that calling through Whatsapp uses both of our data.

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• Transform2942@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Only those who care about status symbols aka unfortunately almost everyone

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  • Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thank god I display my status amongst my peers by rejecting mainstream status symbols. Yay for counterculture being part of the system!

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    • Transform2942@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Come on down to your local counterculture bookstore and boy do we have some sewn patches to sell you!

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  • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not me, I’m out tryin’ to live my worst life!

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  • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To live your best life to don’t need any of that but here we are.

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