who's "afraid" of green bubbles? it's like saying a toyota corolla driver is afraid of the ford pinto

antinomicus 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No it’s like someone owning a Ferrari and looking down on someone who drives a Corolla. Or that’s how they see it, anyway. Plus there’s the annoyance with interoperability: it’s not just about status, it’s about all your iMessage group chats that don’t play nice with android

	▲	elcritch 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apple chose the colors well. For whatever reason the shade of green they chose just gives a bit of ick.

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mlrtime 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a real thing, you're either too old and/or not dating young people. Some do care a lot.

	▲	wolvoleo 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		IMO it is pretty shallow to pick dating partners based on their mobile OS but yeah it does happen.

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sneak 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

iMessage lock in is a huge thing. When it was new and was still e2ee I ended up buying iPhones for everyone I regularly messaged.

These days it is insecure however because they backdoored the e2ee and kept it backdoored for the FBI, so now Signal is the only messenger I am reachable on.

Blue bubble snobbery is presently a mark of ignorance more than anything else.

	▲	xp84 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree that it’s stupid to judge people for it, but you do have to admit that especially with not all people having RCS, the feature set of SMS and MMS that you have to deal with when not using iMessage is pretty barbaric. From the potato-quality videos (ironically, I recall QuickTime was heavily involved in that spec, lol) to the asinine way Apple lets you apply a reaction and then sends it as a verbose text… From an iPhone user’s point of view, a “green bubble” means “this conversation will work like it’s 2003.” Yes, I know 99.999% of Android users are on WhatsApp (or WeChat, Line, or Telegram depending on cultural background) but at least half of iPhone users aren’t on those, so we still have to keep using Messages for a lot of people.