The author should’ve included an example of a green with great contrast.
One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
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#22Green was the original color of text messages when the iPhone was introduced. When Apple introduced iMessages four or five years later they made iMessages Blue. This isn’t some great conspiracy.
But the text was black
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#23It reminds me how MacOS has the icon for any networked Windows PC as a “blue screen of death” monitor
I had to check to see if you were kidding. You're not. That's hilarious. Petty, and hilarious.
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#24No one here read the article, it has nothing to do with it being green but with it being low contrast.
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#25Green is not a negative color in all cases. Green also signifies good to go
The fine article makes no mention of green being a "negative color", it's not even about the color, try giving it a read.
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#26The author is just overthinking things here. If anything, green is the color used to indicate “go”, a positive sign that has been etched into our minds. The reason is very clear as already mentioned “it doesn’t support messages”. Why isn’t that explanation enough? EDIT: to clarify here, the author does explain his point about the color and the contrast of the text. He may have a point there but IMO, the main issue wa…
The article elaborates, however. It's not a problem that green is used. It's that Apple chose a lightness/shade that is less accessible.
Given their attention to detail in design (see the rabbithole of their Human Interface Guidelines - https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...), I agree with the author in that this was an intentional design choice that Apple made.
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#27I wish Apple accessibility let you change the colors.
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#28A large problem with this whole idea is that there is no one single blue or green involved.
iMessage shades the bubbles depending on position, and shows both the blue and green bubbles as darker at the bottom of the screen, and lighter at the top.
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#29When will people realize that the point of differentiating between Android/iOS bubbles isn’t about discriminating against teenagers, but rather it’s about security. If my messages are being sent through an insecure protocol that leaks my messages to the police, carrier, and skids with a rtl-SDR (SMS) rather than a secure encrypted protocol (iMessage), I want it to be obvious. They have every reason to make “green bub…
The point is to make non iPhones uncool.
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#30Summary: the green bubbles have lower contrast than the blue bubbles. Lower contrast is associated with lower accessibility, according to published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Tricks, purpose, and grossness are speculative.