Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

  • TimeSquirrel
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    1 year ago

    where the colour of the text bubble is important for reasons that defy logic.

    That’s just a thing tweens and teens do, it’s just like when kids were obsessed with expensive shoes when I was a kid and would ostracize the kids who couldn’t afford them. No sane adult I have ever met gave a shit about my text bubbles.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      That’s half-true. No adults I voluntarily associate with care what brand of phone anybody else has in theory, but a lot of the iPhone owners are vehemently unwilling to install any third-party messaging apps. That means:

      • Messaging about anything where security is important is a problem. Most people don’t have big secrets, but sending things that could be used for identity theft isn’t terribly rare.
      • Exchanging high-quality media is impossible.
      • People will exclude non-iPhone users from group chats because falling back to MMS is a bad experience for everyone.