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Comment by GrantZvolsky | Hacker News Reader

iMessage deliberately makes the text unpleasant to read. They could just use a green/blue badge to differentiate the underlying protocols, but instead they render the non-iMessage texts on a background that makes them slightly annoying to read. How is annoying users and inducing a negative emotional response to messages from a group of people not abusive?

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SMS messages were green for years before they introduced iMessage, so I doubt they chose that colour to be intentionally annoying or abusive.

The look was entirely different. Black on green IIRC. It's white on somewhat neon green now.

If you turn on Increase Contrast in the accessibility features the green is darker and much nicer.

> Black on green IIRC

Yep, inherited from iChat way back in the Jagwire days: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/revie...

With later iOS they changed the colour to much brighter green which violates even their own accessibility contrast rules.

They were black on green which is fine, white on green is hard to read, only white on yellow would be worse for the way our cone cells are distributed.

I guess dang and ycombinator are abusing me for making me read your comment with light gray text color.

It would be like Apple paying off forum sites to do something like that, graying out Android users in any public discourse. Android phones are more popular in African American communities, so Apple is already doing segregation-like stuff with these hard to read text bubbles.

That's the most convoluted reason to call someone racist I've heard of in a long time.

A better analogy would be HN greying comments that were posted from any device that wasn't manufactured by Apple.

wow

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