alt Hacker NewsIn chat on the iphone, ios users see fellow ios users with blue bubbles, but see android peasants with green bubble. There's social pressure to "be blue like everyone else" and the author caved in.
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bubblewand • yesterday at 3:56 PM
Why does everyone describe this wrong, every single time this comes up? It’s the consistency of the wrongness that confuses me.
No, you do not see others’ messages as blue or green. You see your own as blue or green to indicate what kind of messages you are sending.
If it was ever otherwise, it certainly hasn’t been for many years.
The social pressure is also technological. RCS integration was a big improvement but it's still not up to par.
It's not "ha, greens are poor", it's "android arnold can't be in the group chat because it'll fuck it all up"