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Interesting figure that comes out of the article: 87% of US teens prefer iPhones. Also the explanations given aren’t quite surprising, I guess it’s mostly because of iMessage. Teens will feel like outcasts if they get an Android phone while their friends still use iMessage because of the green bubbles.
It’s actually hilarious how we allowed consumerism to take us this far and that we have now peer pressure over smartphones.
“You’re telling me in 2023, you still have a ’Droid? […] You gotta be at least 50 years old.”
ouch 😔
It’s a pretty good filter. Anyone who cares about the color of text bubbles is not worth talking to.
As a rule, kids are fucking stupid. A 38 year old who cares about chat bubbles you can pretty safely dump into a ditch. A 9 year old can still be redeemed. Also, kids need an opportunity to make mistakes and learn for themselves who they want to spend time with.
It’s more about the early 20s people I may or may not interact with.
Had a potential tinder date mention bubble color. That saved me an evening of finding out how stupid they were.
I don’t actually agree, it’s less about the color of the chat bubble obviously, and more about the experience. iMessage is front and center, baked in, allows for full quality images and videos, typing indicators, reactions, replies, red receipts. You don’t get any of that with SMS. This is still absolutely an Apple problem through and through, preventing other chat apps from feeling native. That being said it does explain why people care so much about iMessage
Yeah, but Apple could adopt RCS which Android supports and all of those messaging improvements you mentioned are copacetic.
I agree completely. Like I said, it’s a problem that Apple has manufactured. But I blame Apple for making third party message clients into second class citizens, I don’t blame the users
android has all those features, and most of the world uses whatsapp anyway
Almost every other app has those features, absolutely. And that wouldn’t be a problem if Apple didn’t prevent them from feeling like first-class apps, or they adopted RCS