• lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    There’s a massive cultural thing in the US about the iPhone being the preferred phone and if you don’t have one it must be because you’re too poor to afford one. Obviously this is a result of marketing and isn’t universal but it is a surprisingly widely held view.

    Given that, showing up in a group chat as a lone blue bubble marks you out as the inferior group member (in some people’s eyes). It doesn’t matter so much 1:1 but if there are 10 people the odd one out stands out.

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      7 months ago

      Given that, showing up in a group chat as a lone blue bubble marks you out as the inferior group member

      Not really how it works though. If there are 74 iMessage users and 1 Android user, ALL chats become green. Ergo Android users are often simply omitted from chats.

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        This. I was the last member of my family on Android and made the fam text chain a mess to the point there was a separate one with everyone but me and I would have to look at it on my wife’s phone.

        I finally got an iPhone partly because of this. Also because the mini is just a much better size than anything that was available android wise that I liked.

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          made the fam text chain a mess

          Your fam made the text chain a mess by using iMessage. They could use literally any other messenger without problems.

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      The real issue here is that people in the US are tied to using SMS for real-time chat groups when so many better (and private, and well known) alternatives exist. Thankfully, in Europe, nobody so far as I know ever really uses SMS anymore – whether for single or group chats.

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      Not really a thing. Google is trying to make it seem like there is, but I’ve never met a single person that has ever cared.