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Gruber gives a pretty good breakdown of the blue/green bubble history: https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/seeing_green https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/seeing
by pchristensen 3y ago
Gruber gives a pretty good breakdown of the blue/green bubble history: https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/seeing_green https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/seeing_green
Short version: SMS has been green since the first iPhone, blue iMessage was added later. Green was not invented to "punish the poors"
- alt227 3y ago> Green was not invented to "punish the poors" No, but blue was only given to the first class citizens.
- baq 3y agoIt doesn’t matter. That’s how teens are using it today.
- sib 3y agoSo maybe someone should talk to the teens, rather than wasting taxpayer money trying punish a company for building a better product...
- smoldesu 3y agoMaybe Apple shouldn't use their dominant position as a smartphone manufacturer to knowledgeably exploit human insecurity and exacerbate user woe in hope of selling families another iPhone: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107676/buy-your-mom-an-iphone https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107676/buy-your-mom-an-...
- vmladenov 3y agoHow long until the government mandates that Apple start directly parenting teenagers?
- sib 3y agoOr perhaps regulators will just require Apple to adopt Google's messaging app strategy, which is clearly much better for consumers: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...