Bullying from Apple users
Comment on Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
kaitco@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Perhaps I just don’t understand why there is such an allure for Android users to gain iMessage…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No shit everybody in my group uses Apple phones but me and it’s a constant bro just get apple and I have to keep reiterating I have no interest in it
TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sounds like your friends are assholes then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have literally never as an adult had someone go “ew green bubbles.”
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The iCult is STRONG with kids.
This is the real issue.
zeppo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I had women in their 40s express their distaste when I had an Android phone.
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Uhhh, I say ewww green bubbles all the time, except the rest of that thought is, “damn, they need signal”
Fuck SMS, and fuck Apple for fucking this up and not ding the right thing.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Apple finally supporting RCS should end this unless your “friends” are teenagers.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Because iPhone owners are petty and care about the text bubble color.
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Also Apple has intentionally made the Android text bubble more readable
scidoodle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
how is white on green less readable than white on blue? please elaborate.
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 9 months ago
They’ve chosen the green so there’s a much lower difference in contrast between the white and green when compared to the white and blue
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
The green is lighter than the blue, meaning lower contrast
scidoodle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
how is white on green less readable than white on blue? please elaborate.
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
There are some people that send a lot of pictures over text messages, who want it for the upgraded image sharing quality. That’s a sane enough reason, at least.
On the bright side, the kind of people who judge other people for their text message bubble color are not the kind of people I want in my life. So at least it’s another asshole filter.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Unless you’re sending RAW pictures, it shouldn’t matter. I’ve never had a problem with image quality over SMS. Videos are a different story, they’re compressed to death and end up looking like watching a video over dial-up in the late 90s.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Especially with RCS coming to iMessage, rich media features will no longer be gatekept by blue bubbles.
Kids will still also bully other kids for having androids even if they downloaded an app to make their bubbles blue.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Hahaha
RCS is not even in the same century as iMessage or other modern messengers. It’s still tied to your SIM card. No SIM, no RCS. Why would I want to go back to the 80’s for a messenging app, when I already have one in SMS?
You won’t get a blue bubble still. It’ll still lack encryption. You’ll still cause a downgrade of iMessage groups to RCS if one person doesn’t have iMessage, AND you still have the same downgrade issue to SMS if one person doesn’t have RCS. I don’t use iMessage much but I’m sure there are other things that won’t be anywhere as good.
Besides RCS sucks. It’s no more reliable than SMS (I’d say worse because it often doesn’t notify you when a message fails, which for something supposedly modern is a sign of a major flaw - at least SMS has the excuse of being built on top of cell management, as a best-effort mechanism).
Metadata isn’t protected like other messengers (Signal, Briar, SimpleX, etc). Even iMessage protects Metadata better.
RCS is something that cell vendors and Google, etc are doing just to prevent losing control over messaging and the data gathering it offers.
I will never use RCS. If people tell me that’s all they’ll use, oh well.
hemmes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lol, what?
Virulent@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Most of this isn’t true, at least not for Google’s implementation of RCS which has e2e encryption, delivery and read receipts, the ability to send messages from the Web app ect. Maybe you need a SIM card, I don’t know.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 9 months ago
you’re right, RCS sucks. But just like WhatsApp or iMessage suck.
zeppo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’d like to use it on desktop. I have to use windows for work but I have an iPhone. People send me messages on my phone and I have to email pics to myself or use Google drive, and it’s a pain in the ass. Using a Mac shows how much more convenient it is to just have it in a desktop app.
Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I think the phone link app in windows does integrate iphone messages now too
zeppo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Huh, you’re right. That’s interesting. Looks I can’t use it currently though (windows 11 only, and my PC doesn’t have Bluetooth).
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I like how signal is multiplatform and actually encrypted.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
i just want to talk to my family on a single non meta owned platform… the only ones to join me on on signal are my dad and my wife, the majority have iphones.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 9 months ago
what makes you think that Apple is any better than Meta? their “privacy” marketing? I wouldn’t believe a single word of it.
Both iMessage and WhatsApp are trash. At least WhatsApp is cross platform.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Common advice is if its free then you are the product and the apple does not do free. They dont need to sell data to data companies to turn a profit, which meta and google very much do.
That doesn’t say apple is secure or private. Personally i don’t trust any that ain’t self hosted but i do have a ranking, worst to best
Meta
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
How about “why not?”
I can use many other messenger apps on multiple OS’s.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The default OS text messaging apps dominate the messaging space in certain markets - most notably the US. Moreover, Apple has over 50% of the smartphone market in the US.
Sending media from Android to iOS looks like flip-phone trash right now. It’s done via MMS. It’s also not secure.
This will change when Apple starts implementing RCS, but Beeper was a way to start having high quality messaging now.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sending media from Android to iOS only looks like trash on all carriers except Verizon. You can send high quality TO iOS if the network supports it.
You can never send high quality MMS from an iPhone, even on Verizon.
I’ve tested this many times. I’ve sent 50mb video from a Verizon Android to a Verizon iPhone, it receives a 50mb video. Send the same video back from the iPhone to Android, and iPhone butchers the quality.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What about the other way around?