• WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    I hear this a lot, I’ve not known a single person who has considered it a status thing. There are people who have cheap phones from both apple and android and they were made fun of for the price of the phone, not the bubble color. iMessage just made it much nicer to talk to people. “I can send messages over wifi!” made it so you could send messages in school or anywhere with a big metal roof. “The images are better!” These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around. Now? Yeah, there’s other options, but back then iMessage made its hold by being able to be used by people who couldn’t use SMS or didn’t want to for whatever reason

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      That’s because you’re looking at it from an adults perspective, if you go into a HS you’ll see it (Source, used to be a substitute in a past life) and there have even been some articles on it that the whole blue/green bubble thing is targeting by Apple towards teens in HS rather than adults.

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        Many people never mature past high school so I wouldn’t be surprised to see this amongst older people.

    • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “The images are better!” These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around.

      Apple intentionally sets the MMS size limit extremely low, much lower than any other manufacturers or carriers.

      This is done intentionally to make communications with non-apple devices a worse experience.

      They weren’t just “making the best of what they had”

      They were/are actively making the non-proprietary experience worse.

      On purpose