What is your source on the second paragraph?
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TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 6 months agoThen they’re assholes. Seems pretty simple, no?
For someone in their 40s, they’re probably stuck in the iPhone=rich/Android=poor dichotomy that Apple curated when the iPhone launched. That makes them vain and materialistic, and thus probably not people you want to be around if it’s that important to them.
Now, if you want to get into how Apple has been changing the contrast ratios on the text for blue and green bubbles to make the green messages harder to read, as well as intentionally making the green color unpleasant, there’s something there.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t have the article handy but I believe it was wired that reported on the decreasing contrast between the white text and green background across several iterations of iOS.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Those articles don’t say what you said though.
I’m asking for a source to your claims
zeppo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The latter article doesn’t cite decreasing contrast ratios, but notes
[Apple’s] guidelines state that you should strive for a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 between the text and background colors. Apple’s white text in a blue bubble (iPhone messages) shows a 3.5:1 contrast ratio, while the white text in a green bubble (non-iPhone messages) manages only a 2.1:1 contrast ratio, less than half the recommended minimum contrast
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s also the fact that there is essentially zero choice when it comes to iPhones. Most people don’t care about the tech inside the device, they just want something that works. In the Android world there are so many devices with different specs that it breeds confusion. People buy a cheap Android phone and are like “This thing sucks! Android is terrible!” and go get an iPhone, which works better than the garbage Android device that they used, never trying a top tier Android device like a Pixel or Galaxy.
zeppo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They pretty much just both thought that Android was inferior. Kind of unfair from one, who was a photographer, considering I bought a Galaxy thinking it had a better camera than the current iPhones (it didn’t, because the processing and camera app were inferior). So she’d be like “I don’t know why you bought that thing.”. But she was aware it cost as much as an iPhone at the time.
The other gf was a design snob (worked for a major clothing company as a color designer) and just thought that Android was complicated and tacky. Not that she ever really used it.
Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s the same problem with so much of the issues we’re facing in society people don’t know it so it becomes the “other” and therefore bad.