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You could stop using iMessage and iCloud.
by sneak 1mo ago
You could stop using iMessage and iCloud.
- Rohansi 1mo agoGreen bubbles, WhatsApp, Signal, etc. are not an option for a lot of people. I don't get it either.
- agoodusername63 1mo agoBecause techies on average aren't socially popular enough to get anybody to make any effort to msg them on a better platform.
- nvme0n1p1 1mo agoSpeak for yourself
- agoodusername63 1mo agoOk! I don't use iMessage because people I want to talk to are happy to install a new app to do so. :)
- jorvi 1mo ago… WhatsApp is the main messenger globally and it is the 'odd' people that use iMessage (and Signal, Telegram, etc.)
- Rohansi 1mo agoStatistically, sure, but it's not evenly distributed across regions and cultures. People can find themselves in social circles where iMessage is the norm and be pressured into using it because others are unwilling to install a second messaging app.
- bluebarbet 1mo agoHard to imagine any "region or culture" where iMessage is the norm outside a section of the US middle class.
- smt88 1mo agoI know people who have iPhones just for FaceTime because young and old non-techies use those a lot. I’ve gotten my close friends onto Signal but there are still always 3-4 group chats where that isn’t possible.
- Rohansi 1mo ago> I’ve gotten my close friends onto Signal but there are still always 3-4 group chats where that isn’t possible. I'm sure it's possible for them to use Signal but some people are unreasonably stubborn.
- smt88 1mo agoSignal doesn’t work with CarPlay or Apple Watch, which are pretty huge gaps even for me.
- ihjbtvjkdidie 1mo agoWhat is there to get? Some people just don’t want to use other services. Period. Not sure why people having their own subjective views and preferences is such a hard concept to grasp.
- Rohansi 1mo agoThat's not what's hard to understand. It's choosing to exclusively use iMessage knowing that not everyone can use it. And then shifting your social circle based on one company's decision to not support it on other platforms.
- frankvdwaal 1mo agoIf you think that something extremely basic seems something that is hard to grasp for other people, it's usually because you're misunderstanding the situation, not because other people are failing to grasp the extremely basic thing.
- jdieidjisje 1mo agoNice axiom. Not true. Proof: the sibling comment.
- frankvdwaal 1mo agoPlease elaborate, because sibling comment explained exactly what you have missed.
- sneak 1mo agoThat’s simply not true.
- drnick1 1mo agoWhat is the problem with green bubbles? I don't get it. Doesn't it just mean the other person is not using an Apple device? If you really want blue bubbles, use Signal, the default color is blue.
- Barbing 1mo agoFor years it meant fewer features and frustrating experiences in group chats. Kids liked renaming group chats and liking/reacting to individual messages, and sending higher-res photos, and one "green bubble" participant nerfed the whole chat for everyone. In spite of Apple knowing kids got bullied over this, meh, money. Thankfully this has now been just about fixed (depending on which Android version/carrier someone has), so green bubble stigma should be on its way out [eventually]. Firmly believe no one ever actually cared about the color.
- Rohansi 1mo agoRCS messages still show as green bubbles. I'm sure kids will still be bullied for it even if group chats didn't degrade. All of these problems could be avoided if iMessage was cross-platform or if people just used something else. Nobody is being forced to use iMessage
- SirMaster 1mo agoHow has it been fixed? It's still just Apple parsing the messages that came through like so and so reacted with some emoji to some message, and then attaching it to that message. But then this doesn't work with reacting to attachments like photos as it doesn't know which photo was reacted to.
- Barbing 1mo agoGood point on photos! Quality, group renaming, reactions to text-only messages - those have been addressed I guess. Maybe typing indicators (at least 1:1) too.
- kps 1mo agoApple's green bubbles are low contrast and hard to read, on purpose.
- k4rli 1mo agoOr leave the walled garden entirely. GrapheneOS has all the same stuff.
- sneak 1mo agoGrapheneOS hardware options are substantially behind iOS hardware options. Also Graphene is somewhat annoying to use; I missed shots bc the camera app didn’t open fast enough.
- alt227 1mo agoPixels are definitely not substantially behind iPhones hardware. In fact it is very much the other way around.
- mebizzle 1mo agoIt is the other way around only if you live in a delusion and have some sort of hatred for Apple. 11 generations in and they still overheat...
- cassianoleal 28d agoMy iPhone 15 Pro frequently overheats. Not to the point of halting the phone completely, but certainly to the point of it being throttled so badly that it's nearly unusable.