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If you have an Android phone have you tried Beeper Mini (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It's kind of amazing it works. I'm not clean bubble anymore.

Has anyone else tried this?

Freaking brilliant.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Why do people care so much about the color of their bubbles?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Only Apple fanboys care. I've heard from them that green bubbles are for poor people. It's kinda funny they how brainwashed some of them are. Although I will concede that SMS sucks compared to Apple's and the equivalent apps on android are to fractured for consistency.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I’ve been using iOS for 15-20 years and have never heard anyone talk about bubbles. In fact, everyone I know has a 3rd party client installed to ensure chatting acrosd platforms is easy. If someone is giving you crap about the color of a bubble you don’t actually see on Android, they probably just don’t like you and are using the bubble as an excuse. They’re not worth your time. (Or they’re just joking around.)

    It’s just strange to me that Android users have such a need to fix a thing that only apple users notice, and only Apple fanboys might actually care about.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    It bugs me (and is sometimes problematic which is largely why it bugs me) when messages send via SMS instead of RCS on Android too.

    I know it's cool to hate on Apple and their users though, damn sheep.

    Also I'm skeptical anyone who wasn't trolling actually said it was for poor people. That sounds like something something would just say about Apple fanboys. Although if they did say that and you were in person I hope you slapped them in the face.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I thought the point of Android was that we don’t like to conform to the walled garden. Why is there such an obsession with jumping Apple’s fence? Might as well get an iPhone then

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just use WhatsApp / email?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I agree, but Apple built this tech for their users, and for whatever reason people choose to use it.

    Some people choose not to use it. So why expect Apple to open their walled garden? If all your friends are inside and they love the flowers, maybe the answer isn’t to ask for free flowers from inside, but either go in yourself or choose to stay outside without the flowers?

    Isn’t this like going to someone’s house and not liking their cooking, and then demanding they order pizza for you to accommodate what you want?

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    • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have. Fails to login for me.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Care to elaborate?

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't get this... I have both an Android phone and an iPhone. Mesaging back and forth shows gray on both sides.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The color that changes is the one of the sender on iMessage. If you message an iPhone user your bubbles are blue and over iMessage, and if you message an Android user your messages are green and over SMS.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Aha, now it makes sense. So an iPhone to iPhone message is blue, iPhone to Android is green.

    Still don't see what difference it makes.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Less features, teens do social ostracization, and adding a non-iPhone into a group chat makes the group chat worse so Android users don't get added to group chats, etc.

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    • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    STFU

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    • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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