• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        It was only six months ago that I learnt they were getting their knickers in a twist for years about the colour of text messages

        I had absolutely no fucking clue that text messages had different colours

        How. Fuckin. Infantile is that?!?

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          11 months ago

          If you think it’s the color of the bubble that is the problem, you might be the infant

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            11 months ago

            I’m not the one paying a grand for a phone that doesn’t support basic SMS functions and reduces the quality of MMS for goodness knows what reason but probably money

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            11 months ago

            No that is the reason. There is nothing intellectual about the position. It’s just moronic.

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              11 months ago

              Yeah, no one claimed it was intellectual, stop putting words in my mouth.

              All grandma knows is when we add cousin Linus all the bubbles turn green and the photos look terrible, so she leaves him out and only emails him later if she remembers.

              Also, yeah that’s Apple’s fault. Never said it wasn’t.

              But to imply that there is, like, bubble racism or something going on, ie it’s purely over aesthetics, and that people are being “infantile” because of it, is ignorant reductance of such magnitude that you basically burned your own strawman down.

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              11 months ago

              Except it’s not the color, it’s the feature set that the colors represent.

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                11 months ago

                You don’t know what you’re talking about then, since Android has exactly the same feature set as iOS (I mean why wouldn’t it) it’s just that Apple refuses to use a universal standard that’s compatible and as per usual insists on using their own made-up proprietary nonsense, see charging cables, iTunes, the Apple watch, and air tags. So Android phones have to default to SMS to send any messages to iPhones. Between android devices the feature sets are there.

                It’s called RCS, look it up it’s interesting.

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                  11 months ago

                  Drop the condescending attitude please. I know all about RCS. I know all about Apple’s ecosystem and what they choose to allow on it. Compliance with standards is still a part of feature set I was referring to. Apple wants to lock people into their hardware and software. This is a known fact. You can like it or not, but there’s still more to the differences between green bubbles and blue ones and if you continue to act like there’s not then you’re the ignorant one in the conversation.

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                    11 months ago

                    Don’t even try, these fanboys have to project or else they’ll fall to shambles over the Google spyware they think sets them free.

                    34 downvotes and counting for pointing out how non-technical people came to favor one bubble color over another; not a fucking ounce of critical thought for their own chosen OS worship.

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      11 months ago

      I remember when the iphone first came out. A guy in my country flew to the US to buy one then came back to brag that he’s the first one in the country to have one and he couldn’t even use it here.