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Re:Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'bu... by ivraatiems on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:26AM (#32766008)
Are you a Seinfeld character?

"I had to break up with her! She's a green bubbler, Jerry: Every message I get, bloop bloop bloop -- green bubbles! Regular texts, Jerry. Not even encrypted. She probably thinks iMessage is a sentence fragment!"

Re:Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'bu... by JasserInicide on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:36AM (#32766185)
I mean, there's plenty of evidence of women saying exactly this all over social media. Here's a WSJ article over it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...
Re:Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'bu... by ivraatiems on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:42AM (#32766300)
Teenage women, you mean. Typically adults outgrow this nonsense.
Re:Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'bu... by yieldcrv on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:29AM (#32775306)
Narrator: They don't.

When I think of Hackernews, I think of US Gen-Xers that don't realize they're out of touch yet, because so many of the comments act this way.

That WSJ article's first paragraph and your response suggests they were only able to Poll teenagers.

But

> “Who’s green?”

Has come up many a times. For me in SF, where everyone is so tolerant of everything except the horoscope signs you couldn't chose and your text message color. And many other places in the US. Amongst adults that can't be on their parent's health insurance anymore.

Re:Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'bu... by metadat on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:29AM (#32766079)
Your take is brilliant, and it's still regrettable people like this actually exist in real life.
Re:Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'bu... by yieldcrv on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:30AM (#32775312)
There's a guy on TikTok/Instagram doing Seinfeld in the 2020s

Its pretty good, and definitely putting modern twists on it back into the collective conscious