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> The blue bubbles are a luxury item / luxury signal that let's apple differentiate their products It's also an abuse of their market position to discriminate
by PrimeMcFly 3y ago
> The blue bubbles are a luxury item / luxury signal that let's apple differentiate their products
It's also an abuse of their market position to discriminate against the competition, and they have done so very successfully.
There are far more subtle, less othering ways to indicate a participant in a conversation isn't capable of the same functionality as others.
- asylteltine 3y agoIt’s not an abuse any more than Google doing the same damn thing with Google messenger! Your phone number is registered there too by the way. Google is pushing RCS only because they are completely incapable of making their own protocol and lord you know they have tried (gchat, hangouts, allo, and now messenger) And by the way, RCS is entirely carrier dependent. It’s awful. I wish my friends could also use iMessage but Apple is well within their rights to stop people from using their network against their terms of service.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoIt's more abuse because of a) the market position and b) the extent of the othering.