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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by pchristensen on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:48PM (#39782756)
Gruber gives a pretty good breakdown of the blue/green bubble history: https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/seeing_green

Short version: SMS has been green since the first iPhone, blue iMessage was added later. Green was not invented to "punish the poors"

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by baq on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:07PM (#39783011)
It doesn’t matter. That’s how teens are using it today.
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by sib on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:59PM (#39784334)
So maybe someone should talk to the teens, rather than wasting taxpayer money trying punish a company for building a better product...
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by smoldesu on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:45PM (#39786249)
Maybe Apple shouldn't use their dominant position as a smartphone manufacturer to knowledgeably exploit human insecurity and exacerbate user woe in hope of selling families another iPhone: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107676/buy-your-mom-an-...
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by vmladenov on Saturday March 23, 2024 @11:35PM (#39804978)
How long until the government mandates that Apple start directly parenting teenagers?
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by sib on Sunday March 24, 2024 @02:27PM (#39809120)
Or perhaps regulators will just require Apple to adopt Google's messaging app strategy, which is clearly much better for consumers:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by alt227 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:14PM (#39783093)
> Green was not invented to "punish the poors"

No, but blue was only given to the first class citizens.