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So you might be discriminated against by some ignorant teenagers? Probably for the best.

who's "afraid" of green bubbles? it's like saying a toyota corolla driver is afraid of the ford pinto

No it’s like someone owning a Ferrari and looking down on someone who drives a Corolla. Or that’s how they see it, anyway. Plus there’s the annoyance with interoperability: it’s not just about status, it’s about all your iMessage group chats that don’t play nice with android

Apple chose the colors well. For whatever reason the shade of green they chose just gives a bit of ick.

It's a real thing, you're either too old and/or not dating young people. Some do care a lot.

I'm confused, I thought we were talking about people who are installing and running openclaw. You're right, if this is now a thread about teenage dating habits, I'm out.

IMO it is pretty shallow to pick dating partners based on their mobile OS but yeah it does happen.

"Nissan" might have fit better than Ford Pinto here.

iMessage lock in is a huge thing. When it was new and was still e2ee I ended up buying iPhones for everyone I regularly messaged.

These days it is insecure however because they backdoored the e2ee and kept it backdoored for the FBI, so now Signal is the only messenger I am reachable on.

Blue bubble snobbery is presently a mark of ignorance more than anything else.

I agree that it’s stupid to judge people for it, but you do have to admit that especially with not all people having RCS, the feature set of SMS and MMS that you have to deal with when not using iMessage is pretty barbaric. From the potato-quality videos (ironically, I recall QuickTime was heavily involved in that spec, lol) to the asinine way Apple lets you apply a reaction and then sends it as a verbose text… From an iPhone user’s point of view, a “green bubble” means “this conversation will work like it’s 2003.”

Yes, I know 99.999% of Android users are on WhatsApp (or WeChat, Line, or Telegram depending on cultural background) but at least half of iPhone users aren’t on those, so we still have to keep using Messages for a lot of people.

People are buying mac minis so their openclaw instances can date?

I assume the suggestion is that they need to run their bot on a machine that's up 24x7 (and they don't want to do that with a laptop since they probably carry it places and such), AND they want it to manage their texts by interacting with the Mac version of the Messages app.

But if you connect those dots you've got people trying to date by having an AI respond to texts from potential dates which seems like you're immediately in red-flag-city and good luck keeping that secret for long enough to get whatever it is you want.

> But if you connect those dots you've got people trying to date by having an AI respond to texts from potential dates

Yeah I’m trying to wrap my head around what sort of reads like “It is messed up that people avoid talking to eachother because of software because it messes up people’s ability to use software to avoid talking to eachother”

I don't follow this logic.

Forget about dating. If you want the AI to be able to send texts from your number, and you own an iPhone, I think your only other choice would be to port your number to Google Voice?

   (Yes android users are discriminated against in the dating market, tons of op eds are written about this, just google it before you knee jerk downvote the truth)

If someone is shallow enough to write you off for that, is that someone you want as your partner?

You're saying I might have trouble getting a date if I don't have a Mac mini?

Imo using android is a great way to filter out extremely boring and vapid individuals from my dating pool.

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