A top-grossing scam on the App Store

Re:A top-grossing scam on the App Store by oarsinsync on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:40PM (#26800364)

The bifurcation isn’t caused by the colour of the bubbles. The colour doesn’t cause the stigma. The colours are simply used as a simple headline to represent all the differences and improvements that iMessage brings compared to traditional SMS/MMS.

The costs of someone not participating in the “blue bubble ecosystem” are borne by all of the people trying to participate in the conversation. Unless the cost of my friend side loading an app is felt by me, the same stigma approach is unlikely to occur.

Ironically, Game Center could have been that exact thing for gaming on iOS, if only they hadn’t mostly killed it off already.

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Re:A top-grossing scam on the App Store by Apocryphon on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:46PM (#26800430)

The colors are an important signifier of the second-class status of non-iMessage texts, though. So if there were similar UX around non-sideloaded apps, whether differently-formatted text or warning labels, they could also shape user attitudes towards those apps.

To some extent you can already see this on desktop, when MacOS warns you about programs from unidentified developers and so forth.

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