I don’t care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the “blue vs green bubble” drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn’t Android’s fault for not being compatible with it.

The more power a company like this gains, the worse will it be for the whole industry.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    277·
    10 months ago

    It absolutely is real.

    Source: my own experience for the last four years

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      8·
      10 months ago

      Then you are hanging around with highschool kids that care what shoes you wear. I guaranty nobody working and living a proper life gives a shit on text bubble colours

      • morrowind@lemmy.ml
        41·
        10 months ago

        They’re kids and plus most of it is subconscious. None of them are mean or anything about it. I can assure if I was to ask them, they’d all say it’s totally fine and they don’t mind at all and they understand, but still they end up sending one less text because they have negative feelings associated with it and thus their brain brings it up a little less.

        Maybe nobody working gives a shit right now, but if this is how the kids are growing up, it’s gonna keep becoming a bigger problem

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          1·
          10 months ago

          Then that is an education issue. Part of our curriculum was decoding advertising and marketing used to manipulate consumers. it seems this has to be readded at schools.

      • baritone_edge@lemmy.ml
        21·
        10 months ago

        Those colors represent the type of message sent: encrypted or not encrypted. From a privacy point of view it’s important.

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          11·
          10 months ago

          If you wamted privacy you would not be using the OS delivered messaging app that IOS can read anyway to flag CASM. And the group can screenshot and share. if you actually wanted privacy you would be using a tool like Session.

      • morrowind@lemmy.ml
        184·
        10 months ago

        peers being frustrated because I have an android… being left out of group chats because people don’t wanna break their existing imessage groups… having to constantly bother people about not sending videos/images over text because they become a blurry mess… frequently apologizing just for having an android…

        And also a general awareness I’ve developed that I have been left out of things… harder to know because, well, I was left out.

        Mind you I am probably in the single worst location for this in terms of mindshare. By my unscientific observation, ~0.5% of students had an android at my school.

        • xor@infosec.pub
          83·
          10 months ago

          yeah, i was a poor kid in a rich school…
          i really don’t think it’s the phone…

          if it was 1860, you’d be excluded for have a subpar quill and ink…