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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because iPhone owners are petty and care about the text bubble color.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Also Apple has intentionally made the Android text bubble less readable, so it has a concrete impact

[–] scidoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

how is white on green less readable than white on blue? please elaborate.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

They've chosen the green so there's a much lower difference in contrast between the white and green when compared to the white and blue

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

The green is lighter than the blue, meaning lower contrast

[–] scidoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

how is white on green less readable than white on blue? please elaborate.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are some people that send a lot of pictures over text messages, who want it for the upgraded image sharing quality. That's a sane enough reason, at least.

On the bright side, the kind of people who judge other people for their text message bubble color are not the kind of people I want in my life. So at least it's another asshole filter.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Unless you're sending RAW pictures, it shouldn't matter. I've never had a problem with image quality over SMS. Videos are a different story, they're compressed to death and end up looking like watching a video over dial-up in the late 90s.