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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by GrantZvolsky on Saturday January 08, 2022 @04:57PM (#29856779)
iMessage deliberately makes the text unpleasant to read. They could just use a green/blue badge to differentiate the underlying protocols, but instead they render the non-iMessage texts on a background that makes them slightly annoying to read. How is annoying users and inducing a negative emotional response to messages from a group of people not abusive?
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by xu_ituairo on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:08PM (#29856918)
SMS messages were green for years before they introduced iMessage, so I doubt they chose that colour to be intentionally annoying or abusive.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by izacus on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:02PM (#29857508)
With later iOS they changed the colour to much brighter green which violates even their own accessibility contrast rules.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by cma on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:21PM (#29857702)
They were black on green which is fine, white on green is hard to read, only white on yellow would be worse for the way our cone cells are distributed.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by GrantZvolsky on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:14PM (#29856988)
The look was entirely different. Black on green IIRC. It's white on somewhat neon green now.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by Lammy on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:44PM (#29857313)
> Black on green IIRC

Yep, inherited from iChat way back in the Jagwire days: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/revie...

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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by sharps1 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:43PM (#29857292)
If you turn on Increase Contrast in the accessibility features the green is darker and much nicer.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by Invictus0 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:04PM (#29856866)
I guess dang and ycombinator are abusing me for making me read your comment with light gray text color.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by cma on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:23PM (#29857723)
It would be like Apple paying off forum sites to do something like that, graying out Android users in any public discourse. Android phones are more popular in African American communities, so Apple is already doing segregation-like stuff with these hard to read text bubbles.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by iqanq on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:58PM (#29858036)
That's the most convoluted reason to call someone racist I've heard of in a long time.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by GrantZvolsky on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:46PM (#29859421)
A better analogy would be HN greying comments that were posted from any device that wasn't manufactured by Apple.
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Re:Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green te... by martini333 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:02PM (#29856852)
wow
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