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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 214 points 10 months ago

The fact that people care about whether their messages are blue or green is so absolutely ridiculous.

I've known people who literally refuse to message anyone who doesn't use iMessage (and by extension has an iPhone).

Every one of them turned out to be a twat in every other facet of their personality as well.

[-] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

This reminds me of the blackberry ping days, everyone and their mom acting like a diva for having a sidekick blackberry just to use ping.

Those were better days financially.

[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

BBM was the jam back in the days before iPhone. If you wanted to be in on the group chats you needed a blackberry. In the last little bit they opened it up to more devices but the gig was up.

I still miss their icons.

[-] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 points 10 months ago

They were never popular over here outside of business users, I always liked the tiny red LED. Sure, I can make the flag on my iPhone blink on new messages, but it’s not the same

[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Yes the light was the best. Some of the early android devices tried to carry on with this practice but screen time attention I suspect won the day

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

But Android phones still have multicolor notification led. In fact it blows my mind that iPhones don't, I wouldn't even consider a phone without it anymore.

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