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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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