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I'm really enjoying this piece by @ftrain https://medium.com/message...
As it happens, I'm in an interfaith relationship, but I'm so in love with him I don't care about the green bubbles. YEP. THAT'S RIGHT.
As it happens, I'm in an interfaith relationship, but I'm so in love with him I don't care about the green bubbles. YEP. THAT'S RIGHT.
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If it's blue, I don't eschew
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"Carriers can transmit SMS messages for free, or almost free, but they can charge the customer up to 20 cents for each text. That represents a markup from between 6,500% to 7,314%."
http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion...
http://consumerist.com/2011...
http://money.cnn.com/gallerie...
I can understand how people with free texting can see this as promoting one platform over all others, for them there isn't much reason for there to be any distinction. However, for those of us who refuse to pay for a text plan, green vs blue is a really great, consistent, clear UI element that reminds us some conversations need to be kept short.
Text messaging absolutely needs to be free, and that's completely on the carriers. It does seem to be included for free in most phone plans these days, which is probably why this issue doesn't have the level of outrage it used to. I think the AT&T ripoff plans are mostly to punish those of use who still have unlimited data plans.
@travis We don't know that. Ford is exploring the various meanings of the green bubbles, and how the fact of distinguishing SMS vs iMessage creates an us-them binary (just putting people in different-colored t-shirts causes them to self-sort in a room full of people, for example), but they could easily be hating the carrier. I am sure "goddamn it, this chat is not encrypted" is not the concern behind those complaints, but many of them could represent "Ugh, I have to pay for this" — and people don't like spelling out that that's a problem for them, especially if they paid extra to have an iPhone.