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Not stated, but implicit: If you have an Android phone, throw it away. No one wants to see your green bubbles, and no one can see if you've seen their texts if
by bitwize 4y ago
Not stated, but implicit: If you have an Android phone, throw it away. No one wants to see your green bubbles, and no one can see if you've seen their texts if you have an Android.
Get an iPhone, like 90% of Gen Z. Or gtfo.
- Dalewyn 4y ago>no one can see if you've seen their texts if you have an Android. That sounds like a feature.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoYou can disable that in iOS too.
- mouse_ 4y agoI don't wanna see people who hold brands above people, I'll stick with my Android. Though I must admit I do judge people with Samsung phones, simply for accepting the worst of both worlds.
- Fatnino 4y agoWho TF is still using sms (or whatever chimera its morphed into) in the year 2023? All, and I really do mean ALL, messages that arrive on my phone are over whatsapp, telegram or discord. The green/blue bubble thing is classist and problematic and bringing it up is frankly embarrassing.
- petesergeant 4y ago> whatever chimera its morphed into Apple's Messages > Who TF is still using Americans
- Fatnino 4y agoCounterpoint: I'm American.
- cj 4y agoYou have an iPhone and you don't use iMessage? I guess turning 30 has officially pushed me into the "old" generation. I'm ok with that.
- petesergeant 4y agoAlmost everyone I message frequently has an iPhone, and I don't think I've had an iMessage from a human in the last 5 years
- cableshaft 4y agoOne of my friend groups (that I regularly meet for board game nights) still uses Group SMS for chat. I'm in another one with my parents. I use iMessage with my SO. A few friends reach out to me via SMS still (one even calls me and asks me to call him back in voicemail...that seems so archaic now). But yeah, that's about it. Everything else is via some messenger service, mostly Discord or Facebook.
- petesergeant 4y agoI don't have the stats, but this feels pretty US-centric; many (most?) other countries use a different app for chatting... LINE, WhatsApp, Insta, whatever
- theshrike79 4y agoYep, the bubble colour thing is 100% America only. "But we have free SMS!" Well so does everybody else around the globe. We still don't use SMS, because it sucks in every single way compared to bespoke chat apps like Telegram, Signal or WhatsApp.
- Hamuko 4y agoThis article makes me want to communicate with zoomers even less than I did before. Android sounds appealing. Not that it matters, I'm not American.
- ben_w 4y agoThis is a big surprise to me, mainly because the only time I get things in Messages.app it's an SMS from a business, 90% of which are either 2FA auth codes or my phone company telling me when the next payment/topup will happen.
- janmarsal 4y agopeople still have iPhones?
- anthk 4y ago90%. You wish. Maybe in America. The rest of the world not. SMS are either for SPAM, for secure login PINs and for goverment advices. Not used by anyone anymore.