Re:iOS First Impressions (2018)
by theshrike79 on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:45AM
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Group texts are some arcane crap that seems to be very heavily an US specific problem.
The rest of the world uses WhatsApp or Telegram or something similar for group messages (and pretty much ALL messages).
I'll never forget the day I saw someone write, "If they have green bubbles they're not even worth talking to."
Some teenagers are really mean and some people never grow up.
Also : Some boomers believe they know everything because of their experience and some know better.
> Interesting comment about the blue iMessage bubbles. I've definitely heard of it, and have seen the memes on the internet, but have never actually met anyone that cared about the _color_.
The color is used as a proxy to discuss the functionality. "Chatting blue" is more about the features that come with it than the actual bubble color, though the latter is easier to mention quickly.
Personally I've been surprised what an impact even just a now-typing indicator has on the conversation and find "green" conversations can feel a lot more disjointed.
Doesn't everyone just use WhatsApp anyway?
Re:iOS First Impressions (2018)
by jedieaston on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:25AM
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Not in the US. Everyone just uses what comes on their phone, and a select few use Facebook Messenger.
Interesting. I wonder what the reason for the difference is. WhatsApp (in the UK at least) is extremely prevalent: every group from parents at a school through to Members of Parliament seems to use it.
In my experience people do, however, care about iMessage being green insofar as the loss of functionality is concerned. Specifically with group messaging, a mix of iOS + Android users will result in weird quirks that aren't experienced "when everyone is blue". For example I've been in a mixed thread where the android user would receive a reply individually by every participant, while iOS users would not. Reactions, et al are unavailable in a mixed environment etc.
I'm not convinced it's a superiority complex, but rather the loss of extras that are lost when texting outside of Apple's ecosystem.