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Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
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I can picture teens or younger acting snobby about phone choice. Not really clear why, if it’s a financial thing, as it’s been years since iPhones were priced at a premium relative to competitors. But well, they’re kids. However, I’ve experienced critical attitudes from adults well into their 40s when I had an Android phone. Personally I prefer iOS, but to judge someone based on their phone choice seems fairly ridicu…
Phone/platform arguments are the worst, I do my best to avoid or extinguish them in whatever politik means is available. People can be such egotistical jerks about this foolishness.
I went through a phase like that and got over it early. As a kid, I thought that Amigas and then Linux were so far superior to Nintendo and Windows that I felt like I was at war with anyone using the other platforms. Later on I realized that this just made me miss out on the joy of using those systems and I would have done better to try to get all of them, rather than fixate on ones I thought were superior.
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Yeah but bubbles sound like a class difference, astrology is just pseudoscience. People seldom get mocked for being a libra, but they often get prejudiced for having less money.
Given that there are Android phones on the market as or more expensive than iPhones, how can these people tell which Android users are poor?
Sure, but there are no dirt cheap iPhones, unlike Android phones. There doesn't have to be 100% correlation before people start making assumptions.
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Yeah but bubbles sound like a class difference, astrology is just pseudoscience. People seldom get mocked for being a libra, but they often get prejudiced for having less money.
There’s literally no difference in price. The only difference is that people more receptive to retail sales pitch buy androids as the reps get spiffs to move them.
Only for top of the line android phones. There exists a huge lower-tier android market that iPhone doesn't compete in.
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Life isn't so simple. What if that person is your boss or your client, or someone you love?
I mean the comment I replied to mentioned refusing dates from people with green text bubbles. If it's a boss or someone I love and they want to ignore my messages that's on them. If it's a work issue possibly HR could be involved as discrimination or outright ignoring messages based on device wouldn't really fly.
> Those people don't sound like people worth knowing.
My boss could be refusing dates from people that have green bubbles, but not ignoring my messages. Same with a family member for example. Your comment says they aren't worth knowing either way.
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I mean the comment I replied to mentioned refusing dates from people with green text bubbles. If it's a boss or someone I love and they want to ignore my messages that's on them. If it's a work issue possibly HR could be involved as discrimination or outright ignoring messages based on device wouldn't really fly.
> Those people don't sound like people worth knowing. My boss could be refusing dates from people that have green bubbles, but not ignoring my messages. Same with a family member for example. Your comment says they aren't worth knowing either way.
I mean, sure if they are not ignoring your messages and you need or want to know them that's fine, but if they are still being that judgy for something so petty they seem like shitty people regardless.
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This is why I don't buy Google's bad faith shaming of Apple for not adopting RCS. The current version of it that people are using on Android isn't even a "standard" by any normal usage of the term, it's just another Google messaging service. No one can make their own app, and there's barely any carrier adoption, so Google is basically running the whole network. Does this mean that now if you send a message to someone…
That's the trap door in this. Apple is going to implement RCS exactly as the specification says it should be implemented, no more or no less. Any incompatibilities with Android will be laid at Google's door to resolve. Having beaten Apple with the RCS stick for the last year, Google might find themselves now getting beaten back.
I think Apple will not build a server and only build support for RCS only in their app. Actual service will be left as carriers’ responsibility and as only a few carriers actually have their own server, RCS on iPhone will be dead on arrival.