[manuelabeledo]

I think this take is a bit ridiculous.

Apple didn't invent a "new form of discrimination", they have a product that works, and is tied to their ecosystem, nothing else. It is not even an exclusive technology, there are a hundred other messaging apps out there, and at least a handful of them are more popular than iMessage.

> Having a phone that doesn't open iMessage is basically a guarantee in the US that you will be excluded and ridiculed if you're a teen, and tbh even as an adult, not having iMessage can result in being excluded in the workplace as well as socially.

I can't speak about teens, but I haven't met a single adult in the US, so arrogant and petty, that they would exclude you from their social circle just because you don't own an iPhone.

And if you actually have encountered this, perhaps it is time for you to look for new friends.

[joshmanders]

These people read some Onion like BuzzFeed article about a made up story along the lines of this and absolutely refuse to see how ridiculous it sounds and start spreading it, and others who have an axe to grind with Apple then feel validated by the idea of it and spread it themselves.

Literally nobody I know who has an iPhone truly cares what color the chat messages is... We do however notice the green message and jokingly go "oh an Android user eh?" and give a little shit for it, but nobody would ever actually ostracize someone from a group for being Android.

These people are delusional.

[Weebs]

I've been left out of the loop by people before because of it. It's not a big deal but it's annoying to have it come up all the time

[joshmanders]

I'm confused at how you get left out of the loop. Do they just not include you in group chats?

I have a group chat right now with my sister who is also iPhone and my mom who is Android, we all have zero issues in group chat.

Only thing that changed is the group chat goes from being iMessage blue bubbles to just all green chats due to the one Android user.

Everything else is the same. Well when my sister like reacts to our messages because she doesn't quite realize that it's not a group iMessage but just a group SMS then iMessage sends `<sister> liked "<message she liked>"` texts to the rest of us but shows the like reaction to her.