“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by lostgame on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @07:04PM (#32405757)

This point is a fallacy.

Prior to the invention of iMessage - (iOS 6?) - all iPhone texts were this colour of green. It was the same no matter who you texted.

This means Apple never intentionally designed the green bubbles to be more difficult to read.

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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by giobox on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:46PM (#32407366)

The text was black though to be fair:

https://www.gottabemobile.com/how-to-tell-if-youre-sending-a...

White text on green is significantly different - the older green bubbles with black text are noticeably clearer IMO, even if I also find it unlikely it was done deliberately to make SMS look bad. That said, Apple will certainly be aware of the cultural thing of the green vs blue bubbles given major news outlets have written on it (in the US anyway), so...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...

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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by throwaway27727 on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @07:12PM (#32405835)

I seem to recall the green being a few shades darker (so there was higher contrast)

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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by JoBrad on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @07:57PM (#32406267)

I don’t think it was a darker green, but the text was black until sometime around iOS 7, I think?

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