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by iammiles 1218 days ago
Differentiating messages between iPhone and non-iPhone (i.e. blue text vs green text) has to be one of the greatest ploys in business history.
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RobotToaster 1218 days ago
A good case could be made that apple are deliberately encouraging cyberbulling with it.
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rootusrootus 1218 days ago
That's a stretch. To begin with, you can't even see the blue/green difference until you actually send a message to someone. All received messages are gray. And even without the color, you instantly know the difference between the two -- one tells you it was delivered, the other one is a shot into the void.
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Jcowell 1218 days ago
No you can detect if a number is iMessage by putting it in the sender tab of a message. If it’s iMessage-able then it will turn blue.
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kaba0 1218 days ago
Differentiating between e2e encrypted, internet-sent messages vs SMSs are important, though.

And it is not an issue anywhere else on Earth besides the US, people just use third-party messenger apps and that’s it.

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