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
    13·
    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
      113·
      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.

      • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

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

        • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          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.

          • 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.