As someone from the EU, I’m so confused about why this would matter to people. At that age, people will just find any excuse to bully regardless of what it is, it’s why uniforms don’t work either for those purposes. Hell, if someone were to try and shame me for the fucking color of my messages I’d be thankful, they’ve shown me another cunt to avoid associating with. In that sense it might actually be useful. (also, who even uses sms anymore?)
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krakenx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Apple is not going to change this unless legally forced to because it is quite possibly the biggest driver of iPhone sales.
A whopping 87% of American teens use an iPhone, and the green text from Android SMS is the biggest reason. At that age people will do almost anything to fit in and get a date, and the green text was chosen specifically to elicit an “eww” response. Most of those teens will likely will continue to use iPhones as adults because it’s what they know.
IGMKI@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Surdon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The green text peer pressure means nothing to me, but you are 100% spot on about the ecosystem driving sales. My whole family uses apple and I get left out of so many group chats and face times that I’ve actually considered switching to Apple even though I’m a die hard Note fan. Apples hardware may be nothing special, but they have a killer feature in their seamless, closed ecosystem, and they know it. At the end of the day, a phones job is to communicate, and Apple does that seemlessly- with other Apple devices
Fungah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Be the change. You’re doing it.
floppade@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s what lured me in and also why I left. I wanted devices that worked together for accessibility reasons, not because I wanted to be on some over engineered chat network that only works with itself.
Robaque@feddit.it 11 months ago
It’s a slippery slope though. Unless you own a mac or pay subscribe to icloud storage tranferring photos and other files off your phone is gonna be a pain. Also, unless you get a mac with enough storage space it’s also gonna be a pain because iphotos doesn’t support direct transfer to external drives, so you gotta use image capture which is ridiculously barebones.
Surdon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Wait you can’t transfer images directly to external harddrives?? Honestly I genuinely wonder why people put up with this shit
Robaque@feddit.it 11 months ago
Only with image capture, which is very subpar
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Very true and very ridiculous. A great deal of people will commonly do almost anything to be apart of a desirable group.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Meanwhile outside of the United States basically no one uses iMessage. Precisely because it’s so terrible it interfacing with non-apple devices. Everyone just uses WhatsApp which will work with anything.
Of course WhatsApp’s quite a crap program as well missing basic functionality but at least it’s not device specific.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I can still send text messages to anyone from my Samsung phone, it’s all just dumb.