Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.

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.

    • CodingCarpenter@lemm.eeEnglish
      28·
      11 months ago

      No shit everybody in my group uses Apple phones but me and it’s a constant bro just get apple and I have to keep reiterating I have no interest in it

      • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        264·
        11 months ago

        Sounds like your friends are assholes then. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I have literally never as an adult had someone go “ew green bubbles.” Now, my teenage nephew? The iCult is STRONG with kids.

          • TK420@lemmy.worldEnglish
            53·
            11 months ago

            It’s probably old people and not kids at this point, but easier to blame young people than the old.

            Who the fuck buys things, adults, not kids.

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          I had women in their 40s express their distaste when I had an Android phone.

          • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            152·
            11 months ago

            Then they’re assholes. Seems pretty simple, no?

            For someone in their 40s, they’re probably stuck in the iPhone=rich/Android=poor dichotomy that Apple curated when the iPhone launched. That makes them vain and materialistic, and thus probably not people you want to be around if it’s that important to them.

            Now, if you want to get into how Apple has been changing the contrast ratios on the text for blue and green bubbles to make the green messages harder to read, as well as intentionally making the green color unpleasant, there’s something there.

            • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7·
              11 months ago

              They pretty much just both thought that Android was inferior. Kind of unfair from one, who was a photographer, considering I bought a Galaxy thinking it had a better camera than the current iPhones (it didn’t, because the processing and camera app were inferior). So she’d be like “I don’t know why you bought that thing.”. But she was aware it cost as much as an iPhone at the time.

              The other gf was a design snob (worked for a major clothing company as a color designer) and just thought that Android was complicated and tacky. Not that she ever really used it.

              • Untitled4774@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                It’s the same problem with so much of the issues we’re facing in society people don’t know it so it becomes the “other” and therefore bad.

              • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                11 months ago

                Don’t have the article handy but I believe it was wired that reported on the decreasing contrast between the white text and green background across several iterations of iOS.

                Edit: WSJ from 2018. I can’t find a way behind the paywall. And Medium. Also from '18

                  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    11 months ago

                    The latter article doesn’t cite decreasing contrast ratios, but notes

                    [Apple’s] guidelines state that you should strive for a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 between the text and background colors. Apple’s white text in a blue bubble (iPhone messages) shows a 3.5:1 contrast ratio, while the white text in a green bubble (non-iPhone messages) manages only a 2.1:1 contrast ratio, less than half the recommended minimum contrast

            • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              It’s also the fact that there is essentially zero choice when it comes to iPhones. Most people don’t care about the tech inside the device, they just want something that works. In the Android world there are so many devices with different specs that it breeds confusion. People buy a cheap Android phone and are like “This thing sucks! Android is terrible!” and go get an iPhone, which works better than the garbage Android device that they used, never trying a top tier Android device like a Pixel or Galaxy.

              Back when my mom needed to upgrade her shitty Sharp Aquous Android phone I told her I would pay for it, since she’s frugal, she instinctively pointed out the cheapest one at T-Mobile. I told her that it was going to be garbage and she was going to hate it, but she insisted that she wanted that one and didn’t care. I bought her a Galaxy S6 instead, which she used for years. When I bought my Pixel 6 Pro, I gave her my Pixel 2 XL, which was still working perfectly 5 years later. She’s still using it two years later and has zero complaints.

        • TK420@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          11 months ago

          Uhhh, I say ewww green bubbles all the time, except the rest of that thought is, “damn, they need signal”

          Fuck SMS, and fuck Apple for fucking this up and not doig the right thing.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Apple finally supporting RCS should end this unless your “friends” are teenagers.