Google Calls Out Apple for Identifying Android Users with Green Bubbles in Messages: “Peer Pressure and Bullying”

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A Google SVP has called out Apple for identifying Android users through its Messaging app with green bubbles, a color that’s apparently so ugly that it’s compelling owners of Pixel, Galaxy, and other popular Android devices to ditch them for iPhones.



“Apple’s iMessage lock-in is a documented strategy,” Hiroshi Lockheimer wrote in a recent tweet, alleging that Apple’s stylistic choices are synonymous to “peer pressure and bullying.”



“Using peer pressure and bullying as a way to sell products is disingenuous for a company that has humanity and equity as a core part of its marketing,” the SVP explained. “The standards exist today to fix this.”



Lockheimer’s statement was prompted by an article that The Wall Street Journal published over the weekend regarding the rising popularity of Apple’s iMessage app among teens and how the typical...

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[Brian_B]

Green just means not Apple iMessage.

That isn't the same thing as "pointing out Android devices"

Apple to Apple can even be green if it gets routed via SMS rather than iMessage

 

[Grimlakin]

Yea that's kinda a bullshit complaint. PLUS everyone knows android is associated with the color green. So why the hell are they complaining? It just means if they see more green messages than blue they will want to switch to the 'popular' one.

My family as an aside is going all Samsung phones because they offer the option in text messages to show if they have been read among samsung device owners. So that's super convenient and lets us know if they have seen our message. Sure there might be a freemium app that does the same but this is built in.

Little things like that actually make a difference. The color of a text bubble... does not.

 

[Riccochet]

Yea that's kinda a bullshit complaint. PLUS everyone knows android is associated with the color green. So why the hell are they complaining? It just means if they see more green messages than blue they will want to switch to the 'popular' one.

My family as an aside is going all Samsung phones because they offer the option in text messages to show if they have been read among samsung device owners. So that's super convenient and lets us know if they have seen our message. Sure there might be a freemium app that does the same but this is built in.

Little things like that actually make a difference. The color of a text bubble... does not.

Pixel's do that as well.

 

[Dogsofjune]

I'm sorry, wtf? Who cares?


Oh dear god, we are doomed as a civilization.

Here lies the great cities of the past children. Vast civilizations all ruined cuz they didn't want green text bubbles.

 

[Uvilla]

I think this is too funny.