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>Sensible people do not deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps and then throw away the key. >Yes they do >It was because they didn’t wa
by bscphil 7y ago
>Sensible people do not deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps and then throw away the key.
>Yes they do
>It was because they didn’t want to be “green bubbles,” a reference to the fact that iMessage chats in the iPhone’s Messages app use blue bubbles while SMS chats are displayed with green bubbles
Sorry, it seems to me like the story you're relating supports the point of the post you disagree with. Surely "sensible" people don't choose a phone on the basis of what color their messages appear as on other people's phones.
(I think there are sensible reasons to choose either platform. But the reason you're talking about here certainly isn't.)
- diminoten 7y agoSensible people absolutely do choose a phone on the basis of how they're perceived by owning that phone. Perception has value. You can rail against society all you want, but the reality is your peers make and break you.
- bscphil 7y agoI guess to each their own - I don't consider that sensible. Personally I've never been in an environment where it was common to judge others for the model of their phone, and complying with that level of control over my life and decisions, even for a moderate social reward, doesn't seem sensible to me.
- diminoten 7y agoIf you've never dealt with this level of pettiness, signaling, and superficiality, then you've never operated at any meaningful level of power, unfortunately.