Google failed to compete with iMessage for years. Now it wants Apple to play nice.
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After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
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This article misses the mental health forest for the platform technology trees. Apple may not be "the bully", but they definitely are "the enabler".
A single update to iMessage could've stopped all of this bubble-ist/color-ist shit.
Do you really think making the green bubbles blue would make little Timmy's classmates not realize group chats don't work and he sends and receives potato-quality photos / video? They would find out he has an Android phone soon enough and bully him anyway.
I think the only thing it would do is make it take slightly longer to figure out if I have to use WhatsApp with a person.
Maybe "Little Timmy" can't afford an iPhone and just wants to talk to his friends.
EDIT: But maybe he shouldn't want to talk to them, because they are clearly assholes.
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Bullying aside, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intentionally futzed with the colors to make it harder to read messages that come in as green bubbles. I wonder if it's enough for there to be a regulatory angle on that alone?
On the contrary, your paranoid delusion is trivially easy to disprove.
iMessage launched with iOS 5. Prior to its launch, all the way back to the original iPhone, all messages were via SMS and were the same colour: green.
Check out this Ars video for evidence.
Why make the colored bubble a public "feature"? Apple knows teenagers will harass other teenagers for them. Apple can claim plausible deniability while apologists rush to defend it. Nice niche, Steve.
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Bullying aside, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intentionally futzed with the colors to make it harder to read messages that come in as green bubbles. I wonder if it's enough for there to be a regulatory angle on that alone?
On the contrary, your paranoid delusion is trivially easy to disprove.
iMessage launched with iOS 5. Prior to its launch, all the way back to the original iPhone, all messages were via SMS and were the same colour: green.
Check out this Ars video for evidence.
Why make the colored bubble a public "feature"? Apple knows teenagers will harass other teenagers for them. Apple can claim plausible deniability while apologists rush to defend it. Nice niche, Steve.
Good move, pointing a finger at a ten-year old corpse.
Another good move, knowing teenagers are eating each other alive for a couple more billion.
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Bullying aside, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intentionally futzed with the colors to make it harder to read messages that come in as green bubbles. I wonder if it's enough for there to be a regulatory angle on that alone?
On the contrary, your paranoid delusion is trivially easy to disprove.
iMessage launched with iOS 5. Prior to its launch, all the way back to the original iPhone, all messages were via SMS and were the same colour: green.
Check out this Ars video for evidence.
Why make the colored bubble a public "feature"? Apple knows teenagers will harass other teenagers for them. Apple can claim plausible deniability while apologists rush to defend it. Nice niche, Steve.
Because it communicates useful/meaningful data to the user about how their message is being routed and what devices it can be sent to. Can a person with just an iPad receive this or do they need a phone? Is it going to count against my text message bucket on my plan (less of an issue these days) or will it count against data or use wifi? Will it send with no cell signal (wifi)? Will I get a charge for international messaging or not?
Teens being jerks to each other is not new and if they want to do it over something that conveys technical information then they will, but that doesn't mean the need/reason to display that technical information is invalid
Right, because a child will understand these technical technicalities of why their "friends" won't talk to them.
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Bullying aside, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intentionally futzed with the colors to make it harder to read messages that come in as green bubbles. I wonder if it's enough for there to be a regulatory angle on that alone?
On the contrary, your paranoid delusion is trivially easy to disprove.
iMessage launched with iOS 5. Prior to its launch, all the way back to the original iPhone, all messages were via SMS and were the same colour: green.
Check out this Ars video for evidence.
Why make the colored bubble a public "feature"? Apple knows teenagers will harass other teenagers for them. Apple can claim plausible deniability while apologists rush to defend it. Nice niche, Steve.
Because it communicates useful/meaningful data to the user about how their message is being routed and what devices it can be sent to. Can a person with just an iPad receive this or do they need a phone? Is it going to count against my text message bucket on my plan (less of an issue these days) or will it count against data or use wifi? Will it send with no cell signal (wifi)? Will I get a charge for international messaging or not?
Teens being jerks to each other is not new and if they want to do it over something that conveys technical information then they will, but that doesn't mean the need/reason to display that technical information is invalid
Right, because a child will understand these technical technicalities of why their "friends" won't talk to them.
Then they have shitty "friends" and their parents should tell them as such and help them get new good ones. Still doesn't mean it's not useful information even to teens, in fact given that teens seem more likely to be on a plan with limited buckets of data or messages I would argue it's a target demographic for knowing if they're going to use up their bucket and possibly get an overage charge.
Teens will always find a way to be catty/bratty or form a clique, we as adults need to manage their behavior and set expectations of how to be good/nice/caring, not "shield" them by throwing the baby out with the bath water and censoring whatever trait du jour is being used for the petty behavior
But you can't get different friends if all of them have the same technology pimp.
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Bullying aside, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intentionally futzed with the colors to make it harder to read messages that come in as green bubbles. I wonder if it's enough for there to be a regulatory angle on that alone?
On the contrary, your paranoid delusion is trivially easy to disprove.
iMessage launched with iOS 5. Prior to its launch, all the way back to the original iPhone, all messages were via SMS and were the same colour: green.
Check out this Ars video for evidence.
Why make the colored bubble a public "feature"? Apple knows teenagers will harass other teenagers for them. Apple can claim plausible deniability while apologists rush to defend it. Nice niche, Steve.
Because it communicates useful/meaningful data to the user about how their message is being routed and what devices it can be sent to. Can a person with just an iPad receive this or do they need a phone? Is it going to count against my text message bucket on my plan (less of an issue these days) or will it count against data or use wifi? Will it send with no cell signal (wifi)? Will I get a charge for international messaging or not?
Teens being jerks to each other is not new and if they want to do it over something that conveys technical information then they will, but that doesn't mean the need/reason to display that technical information is invalid
Right, because a child will understand these technical technicalities of why their "friends" won't talk to them.
You must not have a kid. They are up on how this all works. My kid and his friends think we, the parents, are stupid for not realizing none of this stuff about which we are arguing matters. They figure it out while we bitch.
I was a child a hundred years ago. They tell you that so you won't poke around and find out for yourself.
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Bullying aside, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intentionally futzed with the colors to make it harder to read messages that come in as green bubbles. I wonder if it's enough for there to be a regulatory angle on that alone?
On the contrary, your paranoid delusion is trivially easy to disprove.
iMessage launched with iOS 5. Prior to its launch, all the way back to the original iPhone, all messages were via SMS and were the same colour: green.
Check out this Ars video for evidence.
Why make the colored bubble a public "feature"? Apple knows teenagers will harass other teenagers for them. Apple can claim plausible deniability while apologists rush to defend it. Nice niche, Steve.
I can but speculate, but I think it’s because the functionality differs between the two: Messages is secure, offers read receipts, reactions, animations and Animoji. I don’t think any of those things are implemented for SMS.
All bubbles are equal, but some bubbles are more equal than others.
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