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
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scytale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.
WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 7 months ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Bipta@kbin.social 7 months ago
Many people never mature past high school so I wouldn't be surprised to see this amongst older people.
Rootiest@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
GenEcon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
In the US. Outside of the US no one uses iMessage, not even iPhone users.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
GenEcon@lemm.ee 7 months 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.
dditty@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Why’s that, because they use Whatsapp?
GenEcon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
WhatsApp for the older generation, Signal for the younger (Germany).
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Yes. And the younger generation uses Telegram, at least here.
SwoleGymBro@programming.dev 7 months ago
So they use iPhones, but you’re the only one who Thinks different ™ 😎