Comment on Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year agoThe whole argument is ridiculous because it's only the messages that you wrote and sent that are even on a blue or green color. The messages you read are always on the same light gray background regardless of how they sent.
aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People never re-read their own texts, good point.
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's just an incredibly weak argument. Messages that you, yourself, wrote are in slightly lower contrast? Who cares? For users who actually have vision problems with low-contrast, there's a single Reduce Transparency toggle in Accessibility settings that will resolve this issue and a bunch of other ones.
aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
An incredibly weak argument is saying that it’s fine for Apple to intentionally make their UX worse, because they didn’t make it worse enough to matter.
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year ago
They picked a tint of a color used on low priority text. Someone argued that this particular tint is slightly worse for certain people. If you don't have vision problems, it's not really worse for you at all. We're talking about small differences in relative contrast between different elements. If you do have vision problems, you can easily make it and other similar situations across the entire platform easier to read with an accessibility toggle.
No, I don't buy the argument that the UX for reading SMS messages is meaningfully worse than for iMessages.