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The story of Darth BlueBubbles the Wise (lemmy.world)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I don't even understand the purpose. Who the hell cares what colour your texts are?

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In my case, I worked for someone who only communicated via iMessage. When I got hired they said, "Either get an iPhone or figure out some magical way to get iMessage on Android."

    Abracadabra mfer

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    That's some seriously awkward shit. What was the job?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wish I could say! But many influential people in tech/media/politics are iMessage diehards, and she was no exception

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd respond "If it is required for the job, send me a business phone that has imessage". I hope that you didn't subsidize their business expense on your own dime

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    In the UK most people use Whatsapp regardless of their platform. That has its own issues but thankfully you never hear people talking about blue text bubbles.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm in the UK too and the gradual shift to WhatsApp has been a relief considering it used to be WhatsApp, Snapchat, messenger, Instagram, iMessage and twitter about ten years ago, not that anyone did all of them.

    It's a shame it's meta but it's so nice that it's not a huge pile of useless features, just a few.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Twitter never took off in my area for some reason but lot of people I knew used Facebook messenger about 10 years ago which was a pain. I'm pretty sure the popularity of Whatsapp is thanks to Vodafone. They had contracts years ago that allowed unlimited use of Whatsapp without affecting your data usage. This lead a lot of people to believe that happens on all contracts. I still can't convince my Grandma that calling through Whatsapp uses both of our data.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Only those who care about status symbols aka unfortunately almost everyone

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