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It’s not just about the color of the bubbles. I have Wi-Fi at work but poor cell signal. Because I have an iPhone and my husband has an android, we have to use another chat client to text while I’m at work. No cell signal means no texting android phones for me, because I can only text people with iMessage over Wi-Fi.
Plus, remember: kids have phones. They do get bullied over chat bubble colors, just like I got bullied for wearing clothes from Walmart in school. It doesn’t have to be this way, it’s Apple’s fault for making iMessage a walled garden.
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
i had no idea that having green chat bubbles upset people so much.
pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The issue isn’t so much the message color. It’s the ability to send videos that aren’t potato quality and other media.
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
oh, can’t android users receive high-quality videos and photos? after 16 years of smartphones, you’d think they’d have that figured out…
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which should go away anyway once Apple bakes in RCS support
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I’ve seen a lot of people complain online about getting dropped by a tinder date/etc because they swapped numbers and the other person realized they didn’t have an iPhone from the green text. Probably best not to date someone who would drop you over that, but there’s a weird elitism over blue/green texts.
Exusia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Attempting to get a date in the current US scene was hard enough without this petty bullshit. While it was certainly disheartening to see another one slip away, knowing I was dodging a bullet was worth the time. I did enjoy (only once) getting “ugh green bubbles? Srs?” And sliding back “yeah sorry I have a Fold#, iPhones r for brokies” and blocking the contact
(People are free to own iPhone and you’re free to make your own descicions or debate the merits of android/iphone, I am more just intolerant of the fan elitism - not iPhone owners in general, hope you have a nice day)
Nacktmull@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Weird, is that an excursively US American thing? I am European and have never experienced “phone racism”.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Nah bro, if they bought an iPhone that means I can’t trust them with money. Screw that noise
Toes@ani.social 11 months ago
I’ve never heard of that, that’s kinda hilarious and really helps them dodge a bullet.
Apple has spent a significant amount of effort over creating a sense of elitism for using its products but that’s largely unique to the western world. Most of the world uses android devices by far.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 11 months ago
In the US, every millenial is a communist until a green bubble shows up in the group chat… then the poverty jokes commence
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Millennials are pushing 40
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
gen z*
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dumb kids are always dumb. And cruel.
nolannice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it’s hated because they’re synonymous with broken group chats and low res photos. Hopefully EU forcing rss adoption fixes these instead of having to download an app to ‘fit in’.
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
why should the EU have anything to do with who “fits in”?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I’m absolutely blown away by the number of people who actually think this is about bubble colors…
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well it is because that bubble color on Apple means issues for people on Apple devices.
I have millenial family members, they hear it from their peers. Probably even worse in younger folks.
Yoz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People are dumb af
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s all the other features in iMessage that android users “ruin” in group chats. Things like read receipts, typing indicators, reactions, animated/spoiler text messages, sending media in full quality, etc… A single android user is enough to downgrade an entire group chat, so apple users tend to be a little bit resentful.
It’d be a little bit like if one person on a Discord server disabled all the fun parts of Discord, and it killed the functionality for everyone on that server. Now nobody in the server can add fun little reactions to messages, or start threads, or send embedded gifs. All because that one person decided they didn’t like it.
PobrePerformer@lemmy.pt 11 months ago
More like “all because Discord decided to remove those things from anyone not using Windows”
Nothing in this scenario is in the users hands, it’s all Apple, what any given user likes or want makes no difference.
ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This shit seems like a perfect target for an antitrust suit, no?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Doesn’t bother me at all.