• @Ultraviolet
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    2 months ago

    Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green, and cripples features of the group chat if even one member of it is using a non-Apple device, incentivizing groups of friends and even families to ostracize people for using a different phone.

    • @mossy_
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      2 months ago

      mossy liked “Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing…

        • @mossy_
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          11 month ago

          Apple users get the option to “react” to messages, adding things like 💜 or 👍 to the message. Since it’s not natively supported by other messaging apps, those users get a message that looks like mine instead of an emoji.

          • @aidan
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            11 month ago

            Ohh, but why in this context then still

            • @mossy_
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              11 month ago

              because… the person I was replying to was talking about it? The intent was to be funny, I suppose.

              • @aidan
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                21 month ago

                Ohhh, I get I wasn’t thinking about it that way lol, my bad

    • @garbagebagel
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      102 months ago

      It also fucks with the quality of videos to the point where they are unwatchable if you have an android