They're kids and plus most of it is subconscious. None of them are mean or anything about it. I can assure if I was to ask them, they'd all say it's totally fine and they don't mind at all and they understand, but still they end up sending one less text because they have negative feelings associated with it and thus their brain brings it up a little less.

Maybe nobody working gives a shit right now, but if this is how the kids are growing up, it's gonna keep becoming a bigger problem

peers being frustrated because I have an android... being left out of group chats because people don't wanna break their existing imessage groups... having to constantly bother people about not sending videos/images over text because they become a blurry mess... frequently apologizing just for having an android...

And also a general awareness I've developed that I have been left out of things... harder to know because, well, I was left out.

Mind you I am probably in the single worst location for this in terms of mindshare. By my unscientific observation, ~0.5% of students had an android at my school.

oh, understood. just saying that the marketing of social shame has been strategically exended into the colour of your text bubble pixels... from the "think different" company.

signal gets installed on every phone in my house, but the kids are drawn to where the other kids are and Apple snobbery is rife in the area I am in.

its their lived experience and they are the future adults of our world.

if the insane amount of micro-targeted manipulation and pressure these kids face on a daily basis does not concern you, then your lack of empathy is self evident and there is nothing else to be said to you.