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[-] cosmic_slate@dmv.social -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can you show media produced by Apple that encourages bullying?

People on iMessage don’t like “green bubbles” because a number of features are missing — real-time location sharing, message thread replies, high quality media, games directly in iMessage. Some, but not all, of this is fixed in RCS.

Google could try solving this with a unified messaging app of their own, but they’ve failed to build a cohesive product around this without getting bored, and Samsung would inevitably try to build and run their own for no good reason, fracturing the Android community.

Before Samsung starts trying to throw stones, they ought to look at their house first. They’re doing more to fracture Android than Apple ever could. To my knowledge, their object tracking tags won’t interoperate with Google’s service. They push two app stores on phones. They push their own separate tap-payment ecosystem, Samsung Pay.

[-] quentangle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I agree with most of what you said (about Google and Samsung), Apple is pretty clearly encouraging the stigma when it comes to iMessage. They wouldn't outright tell people to bully, but they are doing as much in an underhanded way.

  • Tim Cook says the solution[1] to the issues is to have the people you are talking to change to an iPhone. Hard to see this as anything other than encouraging, or at least accepting bullying.
  • Messages in iMessage used to be green, but when the blue messages were introduced, they changed the green ones to make them less readable and break their own guidelines[2]. There is no good reason to do this other than to encourage upset at green messages.
  • The Epic vs Apple lawsuit made information public[3] that Apple purposefully doesn't make iMessage cross-platform in order to lock users in.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/07/tim-cook-explains-why-apple-refuses-to-adopt-rcs-buy-your-mom-an-iphone/

[2] https://medium.com/@krvoller/how-iphone-violates-apples-accessibility-guidelines-6785172eb343

[3] https://www.thurrott.com/apple/248931/apple-didnt-bring-imessage-to-android-because-of-its-lock-in-strategy

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 3 points 1 year ago

Can you show media produced by Apple that encourages bullying?

That's some head-empty logic.

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