It’s kind of amazing it works. I’m not clean bubble anymore.

Has anyone else tried this?

Freaking brilliant.

  • kpw@kbin.social
    151·
    8 months ago

    Imagine someone cares more about the color of their bubble than proper end-to-end encryption.

      • PhillyCodeHound@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yea I just cancel my trial cuz I’m not going to use this I was excited to hear about it but still not going to use it. Not big enough a deal

      • Keith@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        This was badly written and passive aggresive for no reason, idk why I sent it

    • pc486@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      A friend of mine explained why it’s important to his kids: they can’t chat with a group of their friends.

      Why? Because parents don’t want to install WhatsApp or other group chats due to legitimate concerns about scammers, pedophiles, and other child predators. SMS chat fills that gap, but it breaks horribly for groups bigger than 10 people. Hence if some kid is on Android, they break their chat. Given the penetration of Apple devices, it’s the kids with Android who are considered at-fault. “Just get an iPhone!”

      Welcome to anticompetitive practices targeted at your children.

    • Matt@lemdro.idEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      It’s not about the color. It’s about not destroying photo and video quality or breaking messages into multiple parts and sending them out of order.

    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Its not thr colour its because with media that isnt apple to apple conveniently downgrades quality. Its why so many apple people believe androids have shit cameras.

      • Eggyhead@kbin.social
        3·
        8 months ago

        Why not just use a different chat app? I have like 3 installed to accommodate people from different regions.

        Edit. The very next reply answered this. Sorry.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      32·
      8 months ago

      Sigh.

      Again, because it indicates the quality of the connection and degraded functionality on iPhone. It makes group chats less functional.

      So to Apple users it’s an easy way to see it’s going to frustrating to deal with.

      • Eggyhead@kbin.social
        2·
        8 months ago

        Huh. When I communicate with Android friends, I just don’t use iMessage to make sure communication is solid. That’s an Apple problem as far as I’m concerned, but good on Android users for finding a way to make things a little nicer for Apple users I guess.

      • ripcord@kbin.social
        25·
        8 months ago

        No it’s apparently everyone is stupid but Apple users are extra stupid and anyone who says otherwise is a shill

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    I don’t talk to anyone via phone messaging, let alone Apple proprietary messaging.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Good for you. I’d love to get people onto cross-platform comms. XMPP today is functional on mobile. Hell, it was ten years ago.

      Why are you here again?

  • Aatube@kbin.social
    44·
    8 months ago

    Has anyone here actually met someone in life who cares about what bubbles you blow?

    • Fly4aShyGuy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      83·
      8 months ago

      I’ll repeat it ad naseum, but of course it’s not about the color of the bubble. I don’t know how this keeps getting repeated, are people really that tech illiterate on Lemmy of all places? People who care about privacy want this for sure, not to mention anyone who wants to send pics or video in a reasonable quality or not be part of subpar group chats.

      It literally could mean the difference of not having to use an iPhone for someone who really cares about E2EE messaging and has mostly iPhone contacts. And inbefore “but you could use WhatsApp or Signal, etc”, well yes you can but it’s only as useful as the amount of people in your contacts who also you it. I really do personally wish Signal gained more steam, but so few use it it’s pretty much useless.

      • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        Isn’t Google’s RCS encrypted? Apple doesn’t want to play ball though.

        • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          AFAIK it is if you message someone else who uses Google’s RCS.

          If you message someone with regular RCS - no encryption.

      • Aatube@kbin.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yeah. I get the importance of that, yet it’s really odd how every single article or post about this emphasizes bubble supremacy.

  • kirklennon@kbin.social
    01·
    8 months ago

    I’m not clean bubble anymore.

    I’m assuming you meant green. Are you aware that received messages on iPhone all look the same regardless of whether they’re iMessages or SMS? You were gray before and you’re gray now.