Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users
Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users

Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users | TechCrunch

Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging
i had no idea that having green chat bubbles upset people so much.
The issue isn't so much the message color. It's the ability to send videos that aren't potato quality and other media.
Which should go away anyway once Apple bakes in RCS support
oh, can't android users receive high-quality videos and photos? after 16 years of smartphones, you'd think they'd have that figured out...
I've seen a lot of people complain online about getting dropped by a tinder date/etc because they swapped numbers and the other person realized they didn't have an iPhone from the green text. Probably best not to date someone who would drop you over that, but there's a weird elitism over blue/green texts.
Attempting to get a date in the current US scene was hard enough without this petty bullshit. While it was certainly disheartening to see another one slip away, knowing I was dodging a bullet was worth the time. I did enjoy (only once) getting "ugh green bubbles? Srs?" And sliding back "yeah sorry I have a Fold#, iPhones r for brokies" and blocking the contact
(People are free to own iPhone and you're free to make your own descicions or debate the merits of android/iphone, I am more just intolerant of the fan elitism - not iPhone owners in general, hope you have a nice day)
I've never heard of that, that's kinda hilarious and really helps them dodge a bullet.
Apple has spent a significant amount of effort over creating a sense of elitism for using its products but that's largely unique to the western world. Most of the world uses android devices by far.
Nah bro, if they bought an iPhone that means I can't trust them with money. Screw that noise
I think they're hated because they're synonymous with broken group chats and low res photos. Hopefully EU forcing rss adoption fixes these instead of having to download an app to 'fit in'.
why should the EU have anything to do with who "fits in"? maybe i misunderstood what you're saying here...
In the US, every millenial is a communist until a green bubble shows up in the group chat... then the poverty jokes commence
Millennials are pushing 40
gen z*
Dumb kids are always dumb. And cruel.
People are dumb af
Doesn't bother me at all.
It’s all the other features in iMessage that android users “ruin” in group chats. Things like read receipts, typing indicators, reactions, animated/spoiler text messages, sending media in full quality, etc… A single android user is enough to downgrade an entire group chat, so apple users tend to be a little bit resentful.
It’d be a little bit like if one person on a Discord server disabled all the fun parts of Discord, and it killed the functionality for everyone on that server. Now nobody in the server can add fun little reactions to messages, or start threads, or send embedded gifs. All because that one person decided they didn’t like it.
More like "all because Discord decided to remove those things from anyone not using Windows"
Nothing in this scenario is in the users hands, it's all Apple, what any given user likes or want makes no difference.
This shit seems like a perfect target for an antitrust suit, no?
Well it is because that bubble color on Apple means issues for people on Apple devices.
I have millenial family members, they hear it from their peers. Probably even worse in younger folks.
This is a good video explaining things, for anyone who doesn't know about the situation Apple created.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
Alternative 🔗:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
https://piped.video/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
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