Ermmm. Wasn’t it green for sms way before iMessage was launched?
Yes. https://youtu.be/VQKMoT-6XSg?t=1863
Funny to see even Jobs hit `return` to send the message initially.
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”
#32The 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…
I don't mean to sound like an asshole here but did you read the article? The author outlines that the contrast applied to the green is less readable than the blue, to the point where it falls below accessibility guidelines.
I personally am not convinced by the theory that Apple is doing this deliberately (though it doesn't sound impossible to me either!) but either way it's something they should change.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#33The author should’ve included an example of a green with great contrast.
It's in the first image, the one that says "Good".
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#34At first, it sounded like a stretched out conspiracy theory. When I looked at the "correctly" contrasted green in the first image that was darker, it made more sense.
The lighter greyish green gives off a lower standard, almost as if the Android user was a guest user or in free trial mode.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#35Green 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.
Did you RTFA? It's not about the colour, it's about the contrast. I wonder if the contrast has changed over the years. It could be a worse green today than originally.
Have you thought that screen technology used in iPhones may not be the same since 2007?
The original iPhone had a resolution of 320x480 with much worse color reproduction.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#36When 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…
RCS has end to end encryption.
When I text other android users, my messages are encrypted. When I text an iPhone, they are not.
Stop supporting closed protocols and bad-faith actors.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#37Ye article is complete bullshit and makes-up some fictional examples: for instance the bubbles supposedly on a “brighter screen” are shown as totally desaturated and ‘blown-out’ but unfortunately for the author’s thesis, screen brightness does not affect UI elements in this way, at all.
Edit: Haha thx for the downvotes but the article is still lying with phony made-up images.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#38The 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…
If you don't think Apple had the same thoughts OP did during the design process, you don't know Apple.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#39This 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 tribalism, it can exist perfectly fine without it.
In Western Europe, South America and Asia it's mostly just some specific app (WhatsApp for example, or Signal, or WeChat or LINE) and as a fallback SMS. And if SMS turns from one colour bubble to another colour it doesn't really do anything for users on either end. 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.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#40The author should’ve included an example of a green with great contrast.
It's there, in the first image of the article.