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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 ericmay »

nottorp wrote: post #63
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…

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.

> You can just assume everyone has Whatsapp here, and just message them over that.

Yea but that's a problem too.

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

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Post by tpmx »

malshe wrote: post #76
tpmx wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A comparison between blue and green bubbles on your phone would be more relevant. Color space handling makes direct comparisons between screen grabs (from different devices) tricky.

The author used the screen grabs from different places too. On iPhone you can't have the blue and green bubbles side by side

A reasonable start would be screen grabs of both blue and green bubbles, grabbed from the same phone in the same way. (And vertical placement; see the other comment.)

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

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Post by randomdata »

jeremy0x4a wrote: post #56

Whenever I see this iMessage/SMS, blue/green topic come up I descend into an internal debate that, as I get older, I am becoming increasingly familiar with. The debate is that one where I am forced to reconcile whether I am too far removed from popular culture to see how this is a real issue versus accepting that the issue is entirely contrived.

The nice thing about getting even older is that you soon won't care about such reconciliation.

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

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Post by martin_a »

jasonjamerson wrote: post #3

I disagree with two things here. Green IS traditionally an off-putting color, when we're talking about light: aliens, x-files, goo, and everything witchy. But in this context the thing that's harder on the eyes is the bubble itself. So the lighter one is easier for me. Although I'd rather see no bubbles at all.

> Green IS traditionally an off-putting color

I don't think that's true for the reasons you put up.

Our eyes are specialized to distinct more shades of green from each other than with other colors. That's a useful evolutionary feature when you are an animal and have to hunt in the wild.

For humans that leads to the point that we're rather good in picking "unnatural" shades of green (gooish ones and self-emitting shades of green).

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

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Post by pixelnudger »

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.

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

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Post by seanalltogether »

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…

Yeah all my group conversations in Ireland are on whatsapp now, but I think this is mostly due to the fact that carriers still charge extra to send photos over sms. It's just not worth it to use sms anymore.

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

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Post by schroeding »

scarface74 wrote: post #53

What are the chances that the EU will come in a year and mandate that “all messages must have the same color” and use it as an excuse that having some blue bubbles and some green colors is harming the mental health of children?

Very slim, as this is appears to be a very american problem. It's normal for teenagers (and people in general) to have an Android phone in Europe. It isn't anymore in the US.

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

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Post by s3p »

tpmx wrote: post #19
edf13 wrote: post #5

Ermmm. Wasn’t it green for sms way before iMessage was launched?

Yes, but the contrast was good. iOS 4, green Aqua-ish bubbles with black text: https://d2bs8hqp6qvsw6.cloudfront.net/article/images/750x750... iOS 5, introducing blue iMessage bubbles (still good contrast in both colors): https://images.anandtech.com/doci/4956/IMG_0907.PNG The change in contrast came with Ive's "flat" iOS 7: https://i.insider.com/5df902c5fd9db27769749a5f?width=1300&fo...

Read this as "I've OS 7" for a few seconds lol
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