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Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by LoganDark »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #10
FalconSensei wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

apparently, a lot of american teenagers do. But I think it's because when a message uses iMessage, then there are reactions and other features available, where messages from Android are regular SMS and will lack those

I asked a bunch of teen to 30+ year old friends and family, and every one would say that for the purposes of dating, they would require iOS usage due to the perceived probability of an Android user being an incompatible match being too high.

I imagine that I'd also be incompatible with someone who cares about which device I use to message them. I also happen to use Android. Go figure.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by smelendez »

FalconSensei wrote: post #9
k4rli wrote: post #6

Seems irrelevant. Who cares about the bubble color?

apparently, a lot of american teenagers do. But I think it's because when a message uses iMessage, then there are reactions and other features available, where messages from Android are regular SMS and will lack those

Group chats get mangled too. Media gets hypercompressed for everybody if there is a non-iMessage user present.

Sending video from iPhone to Android generally gets hypercompressed

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by meepmorp »

Do most Android users actually care one way or an another?

IMO, it seems like there's a small, if vocal, minority of folks with a deeply weird inferiority complex around blue bubbles and most people don't care at all. None of my Android using friends seem to give a shit.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by nemothekid »

k4rli wrote: post #6

Seems irrelevant. Who cares about the bubble color?

Imagine there was a Whatsapp competitor but available only on iOS and by some quirk of history it was the most popular messaging app in the united states.

I think bubble color implies that SMS and iMessage are interchangeable applications, but they are not.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by theodric »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #10
FalconSensei wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

apparently, a lot of american teenagers do. But I think it's because when a message uses iMessage, then there are reactions and other features available, where messages from Android are regular SMS and will lack those

I asked a bunch of teen to 30+ year old friends and family, and every one would say that for the purposes of dating, they would require iOS usage due to the perceived probability of an Android user being an incompatible match being too high.

What on Earth would drive that perception? Do iOS users prefer dating other people who will spend lots of money on a status symbol? This sounds like nothing but a thinly-veiled attempt at discrimination based on an assumed level of wealth. (Which, if you've priced out Pixels lately, is not at all accurate.)

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

#17

Post by wilg »

LoganDark wrote: post #11
lotsofpulp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked a bunch of teen to 30+ year old friends and family, and every one would say that for the purposes of dating, they would require iOS usage due to the perceived probability of an Android user being an incompatible match being too high.

I imagine that I'd also be incompatible with someone who cares about which device I use to message them. I also happen to use Android. Go figure.

The system works!

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by 4death4 »

theodric wrote: post #16
lotsofpulp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked a bunch of teen to 30+ year old friends and family, and every one would say that for the purposes of dating, they would require iOS usage due to the perceived probability of an Android user being an incompatible match being too high.

What on Earth would drive that perception? Do iOS users prefer dating other people who will spend lots of money on a status symbol? This sounds like nothing but a thinly-veiled attempt at discrimination based on an assumed level of wealth. (Which, if you've priced out Pixels lately, is not at all accurate.)

Do you really think iOS users view iPhones as a status symbol? That seems like a major incompatibility right there.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by gizajob »

meepmorp wrote: post #13

Do most Android users actually care one way or an another? IMO, it seems like there's a small, if vocal, minority of folks with a deeply weird inferiority complex around blue bubbles and most people don't care at all. None of my Android using friends seem to give a shit.

Android users don't, but apple users do. Part of Apple's "moat". It might seem trivial to you, but people do care about such things.

Re: Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

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Post by wilg »

theodric wrote: post #16
lotsofpulp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked a bunch of teen to 30+ year old friends and family, and every one would say that for the purposes of dating, they would require iOS usage due to the perceived probability of an Android user being an incompatible match being too high.

What on Earth would drive that perception? Do iOS users prefer dating other people who will spend lots of money on a status symbol? This sounds like nothing but a thinly-veiled attempt at discrimination based on an assumed level of wealth. (Which, if you've priced out Pixels lately, is not at all accurate.)

I think its similar to how people might prefer dating people who dress well, it's a reflection of their taste and what they value.
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