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One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Post by williamscales »

greenbub1 wrote: post #98
oneplane wrote: post #39

This seems to be mostly a US American thing, mainly because of the same reasons BBM was a thing: lots of chats over SMS used to be a thing, and then chats over iMessage, which like BBM, you can only join if you have a device from a specific vendor. That means that you can only be in a special social circle if you buy the same stuff. That won't change because of some colours, because it's not the colours causing the t…

> This deep integration with colours and status symbols does remain in specific areas like middle school where it is still seen as important to try to project wealth. Are the kids wrong? When I look at my app’s stats, Android users are worse in every way. More expensive to develop for, pay less or none at all, and their halo effect is sometimes negative: they might word-of-mouth my app to more Android users instead o…

All I can say is that there are dozens of us! who pay for Android apps.

> pay less or none at all

Maybe just make the app paid only?

Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Post by s3p »

pixelnudger wrote: post #85
malshe wrote: post #43

This is a clickbait. On my iPhone the green color is much darker than what the author shows in the article. Here are some images with the hex color codes for example: https://imgur.com/a/7k5dMtm

Your hex value was sampled from a screenshot taken in dark mode, and actual color values are slightly different between dark and light mode.

This is not true. I just sampled green bubbles from both dark mode and light mode iOS and macOS and got the same hex of 34c759.

Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Post by CharlesW »

I have a problem with the thesis statement that people think green bubbles are "gross", which uncritically parrots Google's "Get the Message" PR campaign.

I know that iPhone-using teens don't care about this in SoCal, the virtue signalling capital of the world. Their group chats with friends are all green, so if anything's "gross" it's the blue bubbles of their parental conversations.

In the meantime, RCS is missing really basic capabilities. For example, RCS encryption only works for 1:1 conversations, so things like family chats are not private. Even Android publications are asking if RCS is too little, too late.

https://www.androidpolice.com/android-iphone-rcs-give-up-mes...

Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Post by stjohnswarts »

pipeline_peak wrote: post #50
lifeformed wrote: post #24

No one here read the article, it has nothing to do with it being green but with it being low contrast.

To be fair, he could’ve cut to the chase sooner. Since it was a UI UX article, HN readers probably aren’t aware that it’s a contrast between fonts and background, not blue vs green or green vs dark green.

They could sum it up in the first paragraph and then extrapolate, but like most of these things they stretch it out until the bottom.

Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Post by stjohnswarts »

nerdponx wrote: post #55
lifeformed wrote: post #24

No one here read the article, it has nothing to do with it being green but with it being low contrast.

Or it's interesting to discuss the fact that Apple deliberately makes SMS message UX and UI worse than iMessage.

Author had zero proof of that and speculated the entire time.

Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Post by kube-system »

scatters wrote: post #92
ericmay wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can just assume everyone has Whatsapp here, and just message them over that. Yea but that's a problem too.

WhatsApp doesn't have anywhere near the same lockin as Apple. You can run multiple messaging apps even on a low end android phone.

Lock-in through the network effect is lock in. The fact that it’s the de facto standard outside the US is quite a network effect.

SMS by contrast is an open standard.

Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

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Post by pkulak »

CharlesW wrote: post #103

I have a problem with the thesis statement that people think green bubbles are "gross", which uncritically parrots Google's "Get the Message" PR campaign. I know that iPhone-using teens don't care about this in SoCal, the virtue signalling capital of the world. Their group chats with friends are all green, so if anything's "gross" it's the blue bubbles of their parental conversations. In the meantime, RCS is missing…

> which uncritically parrots Google "Get the Message" PR campaign.

You're misunderstanding the order of events here. "I don't talk to green bubbles" has been a thing for at least five years now, which Google has very recently used in an ad campaign.

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