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[-] Dra@lemmy.zip 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The stupidest thing about this is cultural identification with the message apps "bubble" color.

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Isn’t it the fact that there will be features missing if someone doesn’t have iMessage? I genuinely don’t think anybody would care if it were just the color of the bubble that was different and nothing else.

[-] amelia@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think green bubbles (non iPhone) means it's using SMS so it can cost people money to send messages, especially images which would be sent as MMS I guess.

I'm an Android user though so I don't really know. Also I'm in Europe where nobody cares and just uses Signal, WhatsApp or Telegram.

[-] wrinkletip@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago

The kids care. Even in Europe. My nephew and niece had to get iPhones, and soon my son will have to get one or be socially left out. It's a serious crisis made by greedy corporations is what it really is.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Sounds like an opportunity to educate your kids, and by proxy, others.

Kid's bubble-shaming is no different than any other stupid shit kids have always done.

Don't feed into it.

And if you really want to have some fun, host something like the iMessage-Matrix bridge mentioned above, or other messaging apps. When your kid shows up as a blue bubble, but friends notice he's on Android, they'll be confused...another learning opportunity.

[-] moitoi@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Kid's bubble-shaming is no different than any other stupid shit kids have always done.

It's called harassment.

[-] MycoBro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Don’t do it man. Don’t let them get your son.

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

it's using SMS so it can cost people money to send messages

This is basically the historical and cultural reason why the US uses SMS and MMS: basically every phone plan has unlimited SMS before smartphones became popular, so any smartphone OS needed to seamlessly support it for adoption. Apple successfully bridged that SMS interface into a proprietary messaging protocol and app even while maintaining backwards compatibility with SMS and MMS, but not the new standard that came out after the iPhone.

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yes. The iPhone to MMS connection has filesize limits that basically make sending video horribly compressed, and even still images are visibly limited in quality.

And then message reactions aren't directly supported in MMS, so it becomes a clunky communications experience between iPhone and Android texting.

There's also delivery confirmation, read receipts, and other indicators in an iMessage chat that aren't supported in MMS.

The color of the bubble is a subtle UI indicator of what features are supported in the chat.

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

*exceptional 'murican identification with the blue bubble.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

It's a status symbol, sure... it may be stupid and primitive as a trophy around a caveman's neck... but we are just wired like that.

Nothing special here.

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Only poor people think a smartphone is a sign of wealth

[-] Willer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Only spoiled children would say something like that

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yet no single wealthy person would dare whip out an Android.

[-] Dra@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is a figment of someones imagination and demonstrates the entire trope is backed by people with no intelligence, but lots of competitiveness.

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

There are Android phones that are more expensive than the most expensive Apple phone you can get.

Samsung Fold is 2150€ for example.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Only the wealthy people who gained none of that wealth themselves.

[-] Dra@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not at all, and only the most purile idiots would ever think that, and completely proves my point

[-] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

And the same enlightened kids who are so aware about discrimination and gender fluidity (which is good) are the ones discriminating against others because they don't have an iPhone.

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