Solution: The EU should mandate that all chat messages be yellow with black text. (Coming off the success of USB-C, now is the time for them to maintain their momentum!)
One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
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#312I wonder if kids will grow out of bubble tribalism as they get older the same way youth ditched FB.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android I haven't lived in a country where text bubbles used to be a thing, but I noticed this. People, even people who are smart and kind in other aspects, still cling to the easiest social cues. Doesn't matter if you wear a Margiela t-shirt or what you drive; your tinder date or a person who you just met in a bar will look at your p…
It's the opposite. You're now missing out on the valuable signal of whether someone is obsessed with wealth and class or not.
You assume that somebody who bases an opinion on somebody else on his wealth is obsessed with it. You would be right if and only if you were taking about conscious decision-making only. But people don't work like that. We're affected by a lot of biases that we might deny or not even aware of. It doesn't make sense to label somebody who is affected by this bias as a person necessarily obsessed with wealth; most likely, they are a very nice person who honestly thinks that they don't care for how much somebody else makes.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, no one uses plain sms messages across the pond any more. And sms group chats? I only know about sms group chats from US posters. You can just assume everyone has Whatsapp here, and just message them over that.
How do you message when you don't have wifi/data? I can SMS from more remote places than I can any internet-based service.
And I have been to a number of islands across Polynesia and Micronesia where the cellular service simply does not exist; however, there is always Wi-Fi in hotels. SMS is of no use in such places.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#315It reminds me how MacOS has the icon for any networked Windows PC as a “blue screen of death” monitor
...which suggests that the notion that some designer at Apple subtly decreased the contrast on green bubbles to make them look "gross" is ridiculous -- if they really wanted to make SMS messages look bad, they could be much less subtle about it...
Be less subtle? Serving what purposes? Getting slammed by the EU and the like?
They have to be very, very subtle, and ride the fine line between effectiveness and outrage, never going too much on a side or the other. The best and most enduring conspiration theories have originated from such deliberate and surgical manipulations. The goal they are after: most people will unknowingly abide and be manipulated, while the minority will go nuts proclaiming they know the truth.
Welcome to propaganda 101, aka destructive marketing.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Feel free to downvote me, but everything I said was true. It -was- speculation with zero proof. Prove me wrong downvoters.
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#317If I were at Apple and my job was to make non iMessage messages bad I would also make them a little bit off center. Maybe even randomly off center. I vuess people like me with OCD would never again message someone without an iPhone LOL
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that this is a middle school level analysis, but I've seen it a couple times in practice during my career. 1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android) 2. A manager at my old company was advised to get an iphone for communication with VCs. One of our old leaders had heard commentary from a V…
> 1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android) This is a red flag against the women in question, not the Android user. That attitude/behaviour is a great indicator of a gold digger. You'd be dodging a bullet by avoiding these women. The only other people that share that attitude are teenagers. So if…
I have 4 daughters. I hope they marry rich guys. I have other criteria, too, but rich is definitely on the list.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, no one uses plain sms messages across the pond any more. And sms group chats? I only know about sms group chats from US posters. You can just assume everyone has Whatsapp here, and just message them over that.
Using Facebook to do messaging? No thanks! Sure, when communicating with international friends I use WhatsApp because that appears to be what the rest of the world uses, but here in the States? No. We don't trust Zuckerberg. And yes, iMessage group chats are very much a thing here in the States and SMS group chats in general. And also yes, there's always that techie friend with an Android and makes your whole convers…
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, no one uses plain sms messages across the pond any more. And sms group chats? I only know about sms group chats from US posters. You can just assume everyone has Whatsapp here, and just message them over that.
How do you message when you don't have wifi/data? I can SMS from more remote places than I can any internet-based service.
With 4G taking over, this will no longer be a differentiator, as on 4G SMS also goes over data (via VoLTE).
At least where I live, 4G got deployed on the low bands freed up by the digital TV switchover and hence has the best reception in remote areas.