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> And it is primarily just about the proprietary gatekeeping Apple imposed on SMS. Or maybe, and this might be an absolute shocker to you, the color of text me
by joshmanders 3y ago
> And it is primarily just about the proprietary gatekeeping Apple imposed on SMS.
Or maybe, and this might be an absolute shocker to you, the color of text message to us signifies if we can have all the extra goodies that we learn to enjoy having.
We don't look down on you for having green text bubbles, we look down because we like sending all the extra stuff like reactions to your joke with a "haha" instead of literally sending the "haha" text messages, or hearting something you said. Having multiple conversations in the same messages but being able to respond to each individual message, or sending "I love you" to your spouse with a slam reaction or hearts that float up behind the text.
It's not about any gatekeeping or anything. It's about making our communication more fun instead of text 24/7.
This is the same reason Slack won over IRC. Nerds may want to send ASCII emojis and that back and forth and be fine with that, but other people like the added fun stuff you can do in Slack that you can't in IRC.
- standardUser 3y agoInstead of determining your social circle based on someone's ownership of a very specific piece of hardware, like a sociopath, you could use WhatsApp, which does everything SMS does on an iPhone plus significantly more. That's the norm for most people with a lot of international connections anyway.
- joshmanders 3y agoLiterally nobody determines their social circle based on ownership of a piece of hardware. This is a psychotic argument that non-iPhone users made up to justify their reasoning for saying Apple is the bad guy for not allowing iMessage on Android. People who want to use WhatsApp do, and people who don't, don't. I personally don't want to use ANY messaging platform that is in the control of Meta. If you do then install the app. None of you have really made any compelling reasons other thant to complain about Apple and iPhone users.
- standardUser 3y agoJust use WhatsApp and all these problems go away.
- joshmanders 3y agoOk, so then what's the argument here? Nobody on any device is restricted to just Google Messages on Android or iMessages on iOS.... If your social circle is all using WhatsApp, then use WhatsApp. If it's Messenger, use Messenger, Signal, etc.