87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:12PM (#33183319)

Android users’ text message bubbles show up green, and you can’t send the “tapback” reactions (or rather, they show up as a “so and so has liked your post” rather than a thumbs up icon). This is annoying for Android users and it’s kind of tedious for iPhone users to have to vet group chats to see if there is a single Android user who might be annoyed. Apparently this is factoring into people’s phone purchasing calculus.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by alphabetting on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:27PM (#33183575)

It actually only shows the "so and so has liked your post" on Apple devices unless they've changed it recently. In Google messages you see the reactions from iphone users as they should be shown.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:32PM (#33183672)

Whoa, that’s great to hear. My Android-user friend said otherwise, but maybe she was misinformed or I misunderstood or something.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by alphabetting on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:39PM (#33183808)

Maybe an old version of android but this has what it's look like on Google Messages. Think it changed sometime in the past year. https://i.imgur.com/GYHMkHy.png

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by throwaway894345 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:02AM (#33189817)

Yeah, this was based on a months-old conversation, so I wouldn't be surprised if the feature just hadn't shipped yet or some such.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by rootusrootus on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:45PM (#33183915)

Tapbacks on text messages work on the iPhone side too. I just had the occasion to try that a few days ago.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by alphabetting on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:46PM (#33183928)

It doesn't say "so and so has liked your post" on Iphone when someone has Android in a group chat now?

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by rootusrootus on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:12PM (#33184302)

That's not the permutation I tried, so maybe in group chats it still happens that way. But in a 1:1 chat it worked fine.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by rajbot on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:31PM (#33183649)

All incoming texts, whether sms or iMessage, show up in a gray bubble.

Only your own outgoing texts are in a colored bubble

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by salt-thrower on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:39PM (#33183811)

That's patently incorrect. Incoming texts from my Android-user contacts are green bubbles. Incoming texts from my iPhone-user contacts are blue. Source: I'm looking at my iPhone right now.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by colinmhayes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:46PM (#33184734)

I think you should look again. Source: looking at my iPhone right now.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by rajbot on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:26AM (#33187908)

No, your iPhone does not magically work differently than everyone else’s.

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