One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
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#2It would be an interesting test to make the green bubble dark and the blue bubble light.
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#3I 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.
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#4I 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.
Texts have been green before iMessage came out though
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#5Ermmm. Wasn’t it green for sms way before iMessage was launched?
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#6On my iPhone the green bubbles are much more saturated and legible than in the posted article.
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#7mmm I really doubt that was the real reason why you "dislike" the green message and that it was purposefully designed like so by Apple.
I think this is a case of learned significance, for which you know that a green bubble means a message sent via SMS rather than the "smarter" message. Added to the fact the blue is often used by tech companies due to its fresh and modern connotation, you have the full picture on why your brain prefers the blue to the green message.
That being said, I think Apple should have been more careful about making their message bubble pass contrast tests. But I doubt there was an "evil designer" carefully planning to make that bubble with lower contrast on purpose to make you dislike it.
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#8It reminds me how MacOS has the icon for any networked Windows PC as a “blue screen of death” monitor
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#9Ermmm. Wasn’t it green for sms way before iMessage was launched?
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#10Green 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.