It’s a status symbol, sure… it may be stupid and primitive as a trophy around a caveman’s neck… but we are just wired like that.
Nothing special here.
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Dra@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The stupidest thing about this cultural identification with the message apps “bubble” color.
warmaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, we are wired to be programmed by giant companies to believe that the ways they influence us are just “toward the natural”.
warmaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How is it not natural to want a status symbol? However I agree that companies abuse that to gain power and profit, I’m not questioning that.
effward@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It may be natural to want a status symbol (although that drive probably varies wildly between individuals), but I find it sad that having an iPhone is equated to status.
“Look at me in my expensive walled garden!”
Disclaimer: I also dislike Google’s business practices in different ways
crispy_kilt@feddit.de 10 months ago
Only poor people think a smartphone is a sign of wealth
Willer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only spoiled children would say something like that
warmaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yet no single wealthy personas would dare whip out an Android.
Dra@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
This is a figment of your imagination
crispy_kilt@feddit.de 10 months ago
Your assumption is not correct. Bill Gates uses Android phones
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
There are Android phones that are more expensive than the most expensive Apple phone you can get.
Samsung Fold is 2150€ for example.
prole@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Only the wealthy people who gained none of that wealth themselves.
Dra@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It’s not at all, and only the most purile idiots would ever think that.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
*exceptional 'murican identification with the blue bubble.
Zoidberg@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And the same enlightened kids who are so aware about discrimination and gender fluidity (which is good) are the ones discriminating against others because they don’t have an iPhone.
CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t it the fact that there will be features missing if someone doesn’t have iMessage? I genuinely don’t think anybody would care if it were just the color of the bubble that was different and nothing else.
amelia@feddit.de 10 months ago
I think green bubbles (non iPhone) means it’s using SMS so it can cost people money to send messages, especially images which would be sent as MMS I guess.
wrinkletip@feddit.nl 10 months ago
The kids care. Even in Europe. My nephew and niece had to get iPhones, and soon my son will have to get one or be socially left out. It’s a serious crisis made by greedy corporations is what it really is.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not one single person on this planet ever had to get an iPhone
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Sounds like an opportunity to educate your kids, and by proxy, others.
Kid’s bubble-shaming is no different than any other stupid shit kids have always done.
Don’t feed into it.
And if you really want to have some fun, host something like the iMessage-Matrix bridge mentioned above, or other messaging apps. When your kid shows up as a blue bubble, but friends notice he’s on Android, they’ll be confused…another learning opportunity.
MycoBro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t do it man. Don’t let them get your son.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is basically the historical and cultural reason why the US uses SMS and MMS: basically every phone plan has unlimited SMS before smartphones became popular, so any smartphone OS needed to seamlessly support it for adoption. Apple successfully bridged that SMS interface into a proprietary messaging protocol and app even while maintaining backwards compatibility with SMS and MMS, but not the new standard that came out after the iPhone.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes. The iPhone to MMS connection has filesize limits that basically make sending video horribly compressed, and even still images are visibly limited in quality.
And then message reactions aren’t directly supported in MMS, so it becomes a clunky communications experience between iPhone and Android texting.
There’s also delivery confirmation, read receipts, and other indicators in an iMessage chat that aren’t supported in MMS.
The color of the bubble is a subtle UI indicator of what features are supported in the chat.