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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)

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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago (79 children)

i had no idea that having green chat bubbles upset people so much.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I've seen a lot of people complain online about getting dropped by a tinder date/etc because they swapped numbers and the other person realized they didn't have an iPhone from the green text. Probably best not to date someone who would drop you over that, but there's a weird elitism over blue/green texts.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Weird, is that an excursively US American thing? I am European and have never experienced "phone racism".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It has started in Sweden with younger generations that wants to replicate everything from the US.