I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

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    If they don’t want to text you because you don’t have an iPhone they’re not friends you want to have.

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      If anybody wants to judge me based on the brand of electronics I use, my favorite band or the brand of clothes I wear, I have no interest in interacting with them lol. This whole consumerist worship-culture is just toxic.

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    For me it is. If the girl is using an Apple phone, it just lets me know she cares not for her privacy at all

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      For me it is. If the girl is using an Apple phone, it just lets me know she cares not for her privacy at all

      how so?

      im curious now. How are android phones safer?

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        Not that android per se is safer. It’s just that you may install custom ROMs (say, lineageOS or grapheneOS) that actually preserve your privacy.

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    I don’t care much about iMessage. All the people I know who are not an iPhone users use facebook messenger and cry about how bad quality sending pictures and videos are. But do nothing to change that. Thats the problem. I was going though hell to convince my girlfriend to use Signal to chat with me. Because she is an Android user. I hate FB, Insta, WhatsApp and all that stuff.

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      Yeah I’ve been looking for a while for an app to switch to. All those messenger apps sucks so much. They all seems to be going to shit everyday we use them.

      Should I try Signal ?

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          Signal uses the same E2E encryption as WhatsApp and is also not Open-Source. One could argue that not being owned by Meta makes it inherently more private, to which I would somewhat agree.

          The most private Messaging-App would be some kind of federated Chat, like Jabber or Matrix, that you or a collection of family/friends can self-host.

          Unfortunately, nobody uses those ¯\(ツ)

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    I’ve never seen any blue or green bubbles. What messenger are you talking about? Will you really tell me there are actually people out there, using a basic built-in messenger … for 90’s SMS or MMS?

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      The problem is that in the Apple cosmos the messaging app doesn’t use SMS or MMS, so people use it to communicate quite a lot. Once you use it to message someone on Android though it reverts back to SMS/MMS. Same is true for group chats. 5 apple users are fine, but if you add a sixth person that uses Android the whole chat group goes back to the 90s. Including super pixelated images etc.

      It’s a stupid system designed to keep people in the Apple sphere.

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    I think this must be a cultural thing because no one in the UK sends SMS messages. Everyone just uses WhatsApp or signal or telegram. I’m android and have literally never had anyone mention the colour of my bubble. I didn’t know this was a thing!

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      How old are you? When I studied in Scotland 2016-2020, the preferred messaging app was messenger (i.e. facebook), and I’m curious whether that has changed in the last 3 years or whether it’s a different demographic.

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    Are you from the US? In Germany we use WhatsApp Threema or Telegram for messaging, nobody cares about some bubble colour.

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      European and I hardly know people who still have a FB account, let alone use the messenger. Here everyone uses Whatsapp or Signal

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    blue/green bubbles

    Whenever I bring those up as an example of a platform (Apple) intentionally leading their users to blame other users for their failings as a brand-bolstering move, I get a swarm of people assuring me it’s a myth.

    I know it isn’t. I see it in the wild, both irl and online, like in this thread.

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      It’s so infuriating. I work with a group of people that, by coincidence, use iPhones. Our boss keeps sending out group messages over iMessage and I have to keep reminding him that this does not work for me. Every single time he is surprised and does not know what I’m talking about. It drives me nuts.

      What’s worse? I maintain, amongst other things, a zulip (matrix based communication) instance for them. Blows my mind.

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        Why would your boss be sending communications to actual phone numbers and not to something like Slack anyways? I know that’s a very “tech company” question to ask, but you did state one of your responsibilities fits that bill, so I thought of asking.

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          It’s a small organisation and it’s an uphill battle to train them communications etiquette. It’s one of the reasons I implemented zulip (a slack alternative).

          But the field we’re in is not tech, making it difficult for people to adapt.