For those who don’t know:

Texts from iPhone to iPhone appear as blue bubbles, while texts from Android users appear as green.

For many in the US who still use SMS to communicate, the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.

What’s your version of “If everyone knew this was a thing in my country, they’d think it was silly”?

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    To the extent that this exists at all, it’s basically functioning as a proxy for SES and knowledge of appropriate SES signaling. I’m sure Apple is very happy about it, but it doesnt imply that Apple has some sort of marketing campaign for it. People naturally sort themselves along SES lines.