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I also love being a green bubble, and telling people to use one of the several other secure, cross-platform messengers. I would personally never use Beeper Mini
by quadrifoliate 3y ago
I also love being a green bubble, and telling people to use one of the several other secure, cross-platform messengers. I would personally never use Beeper Mini, because anyone in my social circle who cares about "blue bubbles" would be mocked mercilessly.
But I also hear all these stories about kids being bullied for having Android phones, and see Apple executives talking about locking entire families into the iPhone ecosystem using iMessage [1] on that basis.
To me, this is pretty evil, monopolistic behavior which needs to be regulated out of existence. I'm glad Beeper is bringing it to light. The fact that it doesn't affect me personally is unimportant.
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[1] https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1589450766506692609/photo/4 https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1589450766506692609/ph...
- freedomben 3y agoAgree completely. My kids are facing this now. The bullying is obscene and ridiculous, and very real.
- heavyset_go 3y ago> My kids are facing this now. The bullying is obscene and ridiculous, and very real. The worst part is that the company knows about this and could simply end it by changing a single color in their app.
- rootusrootus 3y agoMy kids are facing this now and it doesn't seem to even exist. Some of them have Android phones, and they're still friends. My daughter doesn't even want an iPhone because she figures I will have more parental control over it than I would an Android phone.
- freedomben 3y agoThis strikes me as much the same argument as "racism doesn't exist because I haven't seen it"