A friend of mine explained why it’s important to his kids: they can’t chat with a group of their friends.
Why? Because parents don’t want to install WhatsApp or other group chats due to legitimate concerns about scammers, pedophiles, and other child predators. SMS chat fills that gap, but it breaks horribly for groups bigger than 10 people. Hence if some kid is on Android, they break their chat. Given the penetration of Apple devices, it’s the kids with Android who are considered at-fault. “Just get an iPhone!”
Welcome to anticompetitive practices targeted at your children.
bulwark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Only Apple fanboys care. I’ve heard from them that green bubbles are for poor people. It’s kinda funny they how brainwashed some of them are.
theherk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Only Apple fans caring seems to me a paradox. If that were the case no such Android application would exist.
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
It bugs me (and is sometimes problematic which is largely why it bugs me) when messages send via SMS instead of RCS on Android too.
I know it's cool to hate on Apple though, damn sheep.
Also I'm skeptical anyone who wasn't trolling actually said it was for poor people. That sounds like something something would just say about Apple fanboys. Although if they did say that and you were in person I hope you slapped them in the face.
Eggyhead@kbin.social 11 months ago
I’ve been using iOS for 15-20 years and have never heard anyone talk about bubbles. In fact, everyone I know has a 3rd party client installed to ensure chatting acrosd platforms is easy. If someone is giving you crap about the color of a bubble you don’t actually see on Android, they probably just don’t like you and are using the bubble as an excuse. They’re not worth your time. (Or they’re just joking around.)
It’s just strange to me that Android users have such a need to fix a thing that only apple users notice, and only Apple fanboys might actually care about.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This too.