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"This attitude might seem childish but harmless at first glance, but is actually a real problem with real consequences. Young Android users, in particular, incr

"This attitude might seem childish but harmless at first glance, but is actually a real problem with real consequences. Young Android users, in particular, increasingly feel left out within their group of iPhone-using friends because of this green bubble phenomenon." Who seriously want to be friend with such iPhone-using person? In this sense, I would be proud to be left out.

kanaridandan 7y ago
>Who seriously want to be friend with such iPhone-using person? It's not just one person sometimes, it may be everyone they know.
zwkrt 7y ago
You might be forgetting what it is like to be a child
- wolfgke 7y ago
  I am very sure to have excellent memories about my childhood and I believe that my comment reflects these memories well. Or to put it into different words: if you are somewhat smart, you should see very fast that the only winning move is not to play.
  - DangitBobby 7y ago
    Sometimes the choice is to play losing games or have no friends.
chansiky 7y ago
It seems childish, but if you ever witnessed a bully use a small thing like chat color as a form of discrimination, you would realize even little decisions like this have huge implications on social development. We might not know what the original intent for chat color is but the reality is, believe it or not, wether you want to admit it or not, something as simple as the color of a chat bubble reaches way farther than anyone probably is willing to admit and likely will make a noticeable difference in the future grades and income and social standing of a child. In particular, because chats with green are functionally different from imessage chats, it gives bullies an easy out for social exclusion. The wise decision is to leave people like this and not befriend them, but children don't know that, and few parents do either. And lastly, there is evidence that show bullies succeed more at life at the expense of those they bully [1]. It gives ammunition to the people who are willing to use something as simple as color to discriminate in communication channels. The small weasly design decision, which might have been to bring more revenue to apple, empowers the kind of people who have no sense of empathy or live life selfishly disregardingly destroying the people and the world they live in. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3037427/why-the-office-bully-is-getting-promoted https://www.fastcompany.com/3037427/why-the-office-bully-is-...

kanaridandan 7y ago

>Who seriously want to be friend with such iPhone-using person? It's not just one person sometimes, it may be everyone they know.

zwkrt 7y ago

You might be forgetting what it is like to be a child

wolfgke 7y ago
I am very sure to have excellent memories about my childhood and I believe that my comment reflects these memories well. Or to put it into different words: if you are somewhat smart, you should see very fast that the only winning move is not to play.
- DangitBobby 7y ago
  Sometimes the choice is to play losing games or have no friends.

chansiky 7y ago

It seems childish, but if you ever witnessed a bully use a small thing like chat color as a form of discrimination, you would realize even little decisions like this have huge implications on social development. We might not know what the original intent for chat color is but the reality is, believe it or not, wether you want to admit it or not, something as simple as the color of a chat bubble reaches way farther than anyone probably is willing to admit and likely will make a noticeable difference in the future grades and income and social standing of a child. In particular, because chats with green are functionally different from imessage chats, it gives bullies an easy out for social exclusion. The wise decision is to leave people like this and not befriend them, but children don't know that, and few parents do either. And lastly, there is evidence that show bullies succeed more at life at the expense of those they bully [1]. It gives ammunition to the people who are willing to use something as simple as color to discriminate in communication channels. The small weasly design decision, which might have been to bring more revenue to apple, empowers the kind of people who have no sense of empathy or live life selfishly disregardingly destroying the people and the world they live in. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3037427/why-the-office-bully-is-getting-promoted https://www.fastcompany.com/3037427/why-the-office-bully-is-...