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0 pointsMBCook3y ago0 comments

As someone who loves Apple stuff: what kind of people are you hanging out with?

I’ve never heard an adult I interact with express that. My Android using friends don’t care.

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I cannot tell you the amount of times my friends mentioned Green Bubble to me as an insult.

And that was basically Apple's strategy to begin with. That user can say he doesn't experience it in his friend group but its been well documented and accepted at this point [1], especially among teenagers.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...

slenk3y ago

I just call them sheeple

paulcole3y ago

Are you the person who made up that insult? Or do you just go along with all the other people who use it?

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MBCookOP3y ago

As a person insult? Or an insult against your phone choice?

onlyrealcuzzo3y ago

What is a person beside the sum of their choices?

If having Green Bubbles is a negative connotation. It would seem it's because Blue Bubbles have a positive connotation.

It does not seem like a stretch that someone talking like that feels elitist because they have an iPhone - which they express by your lack of Blue Bubbles.

steve19773y ago

I think it's local phenomenon. It seems to be the case in the US at least. Where I live (Switzerland), most people are using WhatsApp (or Threema or Signal) anyway, even if they have iPhones.

hot_gril3y ago

There are people who get iPhones just for iMessage. They don't want to be the one person who puts the entire group chat into "green bubble" mode. People accuse Apple of doing this intentionally, but you know, it's not their fault SMS is terrible; even Android users tend to use WhatsApp or something for group chats.

arvinsim3y ago

At least WhatsApp can be used in iOS.

Can iMessage be used in Android? No.

hot_gril3y ago

I think the SMS fallback makes this fair. Apple saw how bad SMS is, they made it so iPhone-iPhone convos use an upgraded mode or fall back to SMS automatically, and I don't see why it's their job to give the upgraded mode to everyone for free. You can still talk to Android users in the same app.

They even put early effort into making Macs send/receive SMS via the iPhone. Google didn't do something similar until recently, or did they, hard to tell with their chat app naming.

MBCookOP3y ago

So I totally understand that. But does that rise to the level of “I’m a better person than you”?

I guess I haven’t heard it put that way.

hot_gril3y ago

I know it was a thing in middle school, and I'll bet some people never grew out of it. I've never heard an adult directly say that having an iPhone makes you better, but I have seen groups exclude people based essentially on income, and none of those people would be caught holding an Android phone.

It's dumb, I hate smartphones.

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onlyrealcuzzo3y ago

I cannot tell you the amount of times my friends mentioned Green Bubble to me as an insult.

unosama3y ago

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...

slenk3y ago

I just call them sheeple

paulcole3y ago

Are you the person who made up that insult? Or do you just go along with all the other people who use it?

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MBCookOP3y ago

As a person insult? Or an insult against your phone choice?

onlyrealcuzzo3y ago

What is a person beside the sum of their choices?

If having Green Bubbles is a negative connotation. It would seem it's because Blue Bubbles have a positive connotation.

It does not seem like a stretch that someone talking like that feels elitist because they have an iPhone - which they express by your lack of Blue Bubbles.

steve19773y ago

I think it's local phenomenon. It seems to be the case in the US at least. Where I live (Switzerland), most people are using WhatsApp (or Threema or Signal) anyway, even if they have iPhones.

hot_gril3y ago

arvinsim3y ago

At least WhatsApp can be used in iOS.

Can iMessage be used in Android? No.

hot_gril3y ago

They even put early effort into making Macs send/receive SMS via the iPhone. Google didn't do something similar until recently, or did they, hard to tell with their chat app naming.

MBCookOP3y ago

So I totally understand that. But does that rise to the level of “I’m a better person than you”?

I guess I haven’t heard it put that way.

hot_gril3y ago

It's dumb, I hate smartphones.

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