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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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