Sorry how can I get iMessage on my Android phone?
Sensible people do not deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps and then throw away the key.
Sensible people do not deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps and then throw away the key.
>He works in IT at an unnamed company, and his team noticed something crazy: of the 500 employees at the company, only 8 of them chose to use an Android phone. Everyone else — all 492 of them — chose an iPhone over Android phones. It was because they didn’t want to be “green bubbles,” a reference to the fact that iMessage chats in the iPhone’s Messages app use blue bubbles while SMS chats are displayed with green bubbles. Forget all of the great advantages iPhones might offer, iMessage is the main reason all these people wanted an iPhone. 98% of the employees at this company went with Apple over Android, and for the majority of them, it was mainly because of a single service.
If people didnt "throw away the key" services like Google ID, Microsoft ID, and Facebook ID wouldnt exist. Centralized OAuth providers are here to say, even if a lot of us on HN dont like them. You want to get into your tshirtclub account after facebook locks your account, too bad!
>Yes they do
>It was because they didn’t want to be “green bubbles,” a reference to the fact that iMessage chats in the iPhone’s Messages app use blue bubbles while SMS chats are displayed with green bubbles
Sorry, it seems to me like the story you're relating supports the point of the post you disagree with. Surely "sensible" people don't choose a phone on the basis of what color their messages appear as on other people's phones.
(I think there are sensible reasons to choose either platform. But the reason you're talking about here certainly isn't.)
Perception has value. You can rail against society all you want, but the reality is your peers make and break you.