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   Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 12:42:35 JST Ars Technica

   Apple’s green bubbles targeted by DOJ in lawsuit over iPhone “monopoly”

   RCS and green bubbles in iPhone-to-Android texts play role in Apple/DOJ battle.

   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/apples-green-bubbles-targeted-by-doj-in-lawsuit-over-iphone-monopoly/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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     Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 12:42:32 JST Dana Fried

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     • Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

     @xgranade I mean, you either support Apple's bullshit or you don't.

     The proprietary standards are what make it a mess; Google just has the resources to reverse-engineer it

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 12:42:33 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dana Fried

     @tess Still that way in a lot of third-party texting apps, even.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 12:42:34 JST Dana Fried

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     @arstechnica

     "[When messages are presented in those telltale green bubbles,] the conversation is not encrypted, videos are pixelated and grainy, and users cannot edit messages or see typing indicators. As a result, iPhone users perceive rival smartphones as being lower quality because the experience of messaging friends and family who do not own iPhones is worse—even though Apple is the one responsible for breaking cross-platform messaging."

     FINALLY SOMEONE FUCKING SAID IT

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     Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 12:42:34 JST Dana Fried

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     On iOS, it used to be that reacting to a message with an emoji would be received by an Android phone as "XXXX liked, '[the entire text of the original message]'" because Apple used a proprietary message format to send reactions.

     Then Google figured out the protocol, so on Android, you'd just see the emoji reaction and could send them too.

     So what did Apple do? In any conversation with non-Apple phones, it started printing out the old Android-style message to make it look like Google fucked up!