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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

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago (79 children)

i had no idea that having green chat bubbles upset people so much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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.

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