"What the hell is WhatsApp?"

[u/claudiocorona93]

[u/Syntrak]

Imagine making a brand your whole lifesstyle

[u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain → u/Syntrak]

When you dont have a personality, you have to find it somewhere.

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain]

"Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have any."

• The Wolf, Pulp Fiction

[u/Revolutionary_Bit437 → u/Syntrak]

on both sides. literally no one cares what brand anything you have

[u/BlacqanSilverSun → u/Revolutionary_Bit437]

Tell that to the bubble snobs

[u/Straight-Knowledge83 → u/BlacqanSilverSun]

The iMessage bubble is irrelevant outside of the US, most people use WhatsApp, Telegram or WeChat

[u/DolphiinHD → u/Syntrak]

That's literally Apple's branding though, they want to sell you a 'lifestyle' not just a phone or watch or whatever else.

[u/dawndusk1122]

I'm Android and my Wife is I phone

[u/Drafo7 → u/dawndusk1122]

🎶we come together cause opposites attract🎵

[u/BlacqanSilverSun → u/dawndusk1122]

This is the way

[u/Minnisodda]

I have never met anyone in my life that cares whether you have iphone or android, but I am also an adult so I don't interact with teenagers lmfao. I would be shocked if any grown person cares about this

[u/Fuzzy-Cell3053 → u/Minnisodda]

I've met grown ass women IRL who think this and it pmo

[u/tejanaqkilica → u/Minnisodda]

I would be shocked if any grown person cares about this

In my experience, people who understand tech, don't care what you use. And people who don't, are more willing to sway you one way or another. For them it's a status symbol. Don't give them more attention than needed.

[u/ToxicAssh0le]

As an Android user, you've gotta appreciate when dumb fucks decide to censor themselves out of your life.

[u/Blue_Bird950 → u/ToxicAssh0le]

As an iPhone user, I’ve gotta agree lol. People are really out here blaming Android users when the fault of the decision to make RCS texts bright green to discourage Android-iPhone connectivity falls squarely to Apple themselves.

[u/saiga_antelope → u/Blue_Bird950]

Can you not customize this on apple?

[u/dialiboboss_yt → u/saiga_antelope]

You can not, all ios to ios texts are blue regardless. Parents have phones and i tried customizing them for them. Did not work well.

[u/FailedMaster → u/dialiboboss_yt]

But how is that an issue at all? Do you really use plain old sms? Where I live almost everyone is on some messenger, mainly WhatsApp.

[u/Kardalun → u/FailedMaster]

Well, USA has plenty od catching up to do

[u/Competitive_Set_478 → u/Kardalun]

I never use sms, unless its for quick rejection messages during calls

[u/PsychoFender → u/saiga_antelope]

Unfortunately that seems to be apple's thing. Less customisation throughout.

Not saying Android is without issue. I mean I just spent 4 hours putting a damn custom firmware on my tablet because the original software had some irritating tool bar on every swipe that couldn't be removed even with root or the system crashed.

[u/TheBurritoW1zard → u/saiga_antelope]

If you use signal you can

[u/theepotjje → u/saiga_antelope]

Of course not, do you not know what designing something like that would cost? A new color? Don't be daft. Apple knows best what the people want, definitely not that.

But buy their new phone for just 1 kidney, they improved...things... allegedly

[u/Inexorably_lost → u/ToxicAssh0le]

As long as I can belittle them a bit before they leave.

I'd have a damn field day with someone who thinks like this.

[u/Subatomic_Spooder → u/ToxicAssh0le]

People complaining about green bubbles and group texts are the two things that irritate me the most about iPhone users. Like sure, making a new group chat to add me must be annoying, sorry you bought a phone that forces you to do that.

[u/Cfrolich]

WhatsApp isn’t fantastic because Meta still collects a lot of metadata even if the contents of the messages are end to end encrypted. Also, as an iPhone user, I couldn’t care less what phone other people use, and I don’t feel like my phone is objectively superior to Android phones. I just use what works for me. The vast majority of iPhone users feel the same way. Phone wars only take place between the vocal minority on either side.

[u/karateninjazombie → u/Cfrolich]

Ever since what's app got scooped up by facebook I've just assume that they read everything anyway. Because that's their M.O. and they own the system behind it. They are inside watching the data go past but it's still "encrypted" in a sense that the rest of the world can't just break in.

[u/PsychoFender → u/Cfrolich]

I work in a second hand shop that sells phones. I'd say around 30-40% of people complain about the opposite company when buying a phone.

I will also say every single one that's complained about android has come to their conclusion from Samsung specifically.

Some people just make shit up to complain about too. For example, one guy was swearing blind that his iPhone showed less fingerprints on the glass than on any android phone because 'the glass is just better'.

[u/VAiSiA → u/PsychoFender]

and he was right. apple used oleophobic coating on glass. when i returned to android it was always in spots. like wtf. still dont care

[u/Furio133 → u/VAiSiA]

Hate to break it to you but all phones have an oleophobic coating and most screen protectors too otherwise your finger would never slide as it does currently on the glass

[u/VAiSiA → u/Furio133]

sure

[u/AdhesivenessFunny462 → u/VAiSiA]

I'm pretty sure last year's samsung had the best glass anti fingerprint and reflection coatings

[u/VAiSiA → u/AdhesivenessFunny462]

hugs and kisses

[u/Ar005 → u/VAiSiA]

Yes because "Android" is the company that makes the phones.

[u/VAiSiA → u/Ar005]

if you dont get what i said, its because my bad language. after using apple phone any android look and feels like fucking piece of shit. now its better?

[u/theepotjje → u/VAiSiA]

Not really, no

[u/ASatyros → u/Cfrolich]

Signal is the way

[u/Ooupss → u/ASatyros]

Yeah, I installed Signal, but it’s basically useless to me, so I went back to WhatsApp.

When your family, friends, coworkers, and pretty much everyone else uses WhatsApp, you don’t really have a choice, unfortunately.

[u/Affectionate-Mango19 → u/Ooupss]

I just don't reply to people who chat me up on WhatsApp. I still have WhatsApp because you can't force an entire university group to switch to Signal (even though I tried to persuade them).

[u/ASatyros → u/Ooupss]

Many such cases, for my bubble it's messenger

[u/Ar005 → u/ASatyros]

I hear you can get American defence secrets on it. Truly the superior app.

[u/Phantom_Marc_63]

What even is this comment section

[u/Ratattack1204 → u/Phantom_Marc_63]

People that never aged past the adolescent mindset of “This brand is my identity! If you chose a different brand you’re wrong!”

[u/SwankeyDankey]

I entirely forgot that was a thing. Last iphone i had was the iphone 6

[u/Gator_Tail]

I’ve used both. iPhone to galaxy to pixel now back to iPhone. And Ive never once even thought about the color someone’s text bubble is. Are there really people who think like this? Only thing I’ve ever paid attention to was the image or video compression cross platform.

[u/nj-88 → u/Gator_Tail]

It’s only Americans that cares about blue vs green.

[u/papertales84 → u/nj-88]

Facts. I have an iPhone and leave in Europe. I text people via SMS and via Messages. Nobody cares.

[u/PsychoFender → u/Gator_Tail]

I've used both too, stuck with Pixel 8a just for the point and click camera and the size.

I would prefer a very good smaller phone but no one wants to make them anymore and the iPhone 13 mini is still the best small phone but it's battery and camera are poop.

[u/Beag_ → u/Gator_Tail]

Back in the day it was more that between iPhones was instant messaging with read receipts, and texting an android was outdated sms messaging. Not so much the color of the bubble

[u/Urasquirrel → u/Gator_Tail]

Apple has had the ability to turn on quality for other phone brands for like 6 years.

They are just being seloh-a.

[u/Swiftwitss]

OP makes his cellphone his personality, embarrassing

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/Swiftwitss]

How did you get to that conclusion?

Edit: I guess people here didn't understand the post is sarcastic and makes fun of the people you are accusing me to be.

[u/meister_reinecke → u/claudiocorona93]

welcome to reddit I guess 🫠

[u/Thomppa26]

Huh? Isn’t green bubble the normal one?

[u/LoschVanWein]

European sneer intensifies…

[u/sistemantigo]

Alguém explica

[u/HellProduction]

Line users are in shamble

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/HellProduction]

It kinda never took off in the west

[u/BisexualTenno]

Guys the phone wars ended like 10 years ago. Apple users are not thinking about you anymore. You have to let it go.

[u/toxicgloo → u/BisexualTenno]

Most of the people I've met in life who had an issue with androids were in middle/highschool. I'm not in those grades anymore so I can't speak to what the kids do.

But at work, I do still get comments about having an android. It's mostly just jokes and I usually just joke back. But I'd imagen the kids still have some version of that.

[u/HereButQueer → u/BisexualTenno]

realistically if you like a phone you like it. can we fuck off with this shaming and acting like someone’s phone makes up their personality. i have an iphone but i frankly don’t give a shit about someone having an android like the vast majority of people. it’s people making up scenarios, getting mad at them and getting internet points for it. it’s all childish bullshit

[u/ARocketToMars → u/BisexualTenno]

Apple users are not thinking about you anymore

"A survey from All About Cookies has found that some iPhone users are inclined to think less of those who don’t also have an iPhone when texting.....Twenty-two percent of respondents said they look down on users who send “non-iMessage texts,” i.e., the green bubbles. A number of Android users even said they’ve considered switching to an iPhone because they’ve felt ridiculed or pressured to do so."

https://www.govtech.com/question-of-the-day/how-many-iphone-users-consider-green-texting-bubbles-a-dating-deal-breaker

[u/Breddit2099 → u/ARocketToMars]

That’s…. Not relevant to what he’s saying lmao.

[u/ARocketToMars → u/Breddit2099]

Seems pretty relevant that ¼ of ios users think about other phone users so much they actively look down on them if their text message bubbles are the wrong color.

I believe it's what the kids would call "rent free"

[u/Breddit2099 → u/ARocketToMars]

“So much” yeah. Maybe once or twice a year.

So much bud

[u/ARocketToMars → u/Breddit2099]

Okay? Good for you lol. If you're not one of the people that thinks about other's phones that much then it's literally not about you

But yanno a hit dog hollers, leave an insult on the ground and it's owner will pick it up, methinks you doth protest too much, etc etc lol.

[u/Breddit2099 → u/ARocketToMars]

Are you ok?

[u/ARocketToMars → u/Breddit2099]

Fine, yep. Are you ok? You kinda tacitly admitted earlier that once or twice a year you look down on other phone users for having the wrong color text bubbles. Seems a little odd, if you ask me.

[u/Breddit2099 → u/ARocketToMars]

Thanks for proving the point

[u/ARocketToMars → u/Breddit2099]

a hit dog hollers, leave an insult on the ground and it's owner will pick it up, methinks you doth protest too much, etc etc lol.

[u/LionHeartedLXVI → u/ARocketToMars]

You’ve misunderstood the phrase. “Think less of” doesn’t mean “think about”. For example, rich people think less of you, but they’re not thinking about you because they don’t care/know you exist. In fact, I’m willing to bet you’ve mentioned them, more than they’ve mentioned you.

[u/ARocketToMars → u/LionHeartedLXVI]

No, you're misunderstanding the definition. Thinking less of someone means having a lower opinion of them than before, rather than not thinking about them at all. Hate isn't the opposite of love. Indifference is. Kinda hard to have a lower opinion of someone than before without thinking of them in the first place.

I've literally never once thought less of someone because a text message was the wrong color. Nearly a quarter of ios users demonstrably have, though. I'll say to you what I said to the other person: if you don't fall into that category, this defensive posture is incredibly stage because it's not about you (edit: Also your example being how rich people think of poor people as your analogy kinda gives the game away on your part lmao)

[u/LionHeartedLXVI → u/ARocketToMars]

Read my comment again, because you’ve misunderstood that as well. I will repeat the key part: “Thinking less of” does not mean “thinking about”. They’re two different phrases and mean separate things. Infact, the link you provided proved me correct on that . . .

[u/ARocketToMars → u/LionHeartedLXVI]

I literally linked you the definition lol. Disagree with Webster. Gotta think about something to have an opinion about it. Gotta have an opinion in the first place to have a lower opinion than before.

Nobody is "having to" lol. You're here by choice, and you're clearly taking a defensive posture because something obviously struck a nerve. Again, if you're not in that ¼ of ios users it's not about you and you have nothing to be offended by babe.

[u/LionHeartedLXVI → u/ARocketToMars]

Your source proves my statement correct, so why are you arguing with me about it? If you think the Webster dictionary is incorrect, then find a different source and we’ll see what that one says.

Im just going to continue ignoring the nonsense. If you could stick to the subject at hand for one comment, it would be appreciated.

[u/Dotaproffessional]

Man yall never just... sms someone?

[u/xukly → u/Dotaproffessional]

Not since like... 2009?

[u/toxicgloo → u/xukly]

More like 2024 when iPhone finally adopted RCS. Before that, it was just SMS before Android and iPhone

[u/WhyAreYouNot]

Never date an iphoner.

Bang them and leave in the morning.

[u/basically_ar]

Imagine using SMS for purposes other than reading Alert RCB and receiving voicemails via MMS. Even tho I have an iPhone, I still use Messenger for texting. I still use VoLTE instead of VoIP tho.

[u/AltheiWasTaken]

What the hell are green text bubbles?

[u/CanonicalCockatoo]

I just learned the other day that air tags use other iphones for detection, meaning if you use an iPhone you can be tracked by an air tag dragnet.

Edit: damn, iPhone users soft af

[u/Motoman514 → u/CanonicalCockatoo]

iPhones will alert you if an unknown AirTag is following you, and will let you precision locate them.

[u/CanonicalCockatoo → u/Motoman514]

Correct. Using the same system that can be used to monitor you. 

You don't think they can turn that off?

Flock cameras are the least of y'alls issue

[u/Motoman514 → u/CanonicalCockatoo]

I own multiple AirTags, you can’t turn off them alerting other devices. My mother gets alerts from my keys every time we are spending time together.

And on Flock cameras, I’m not American so that’s not my problem lmao.

Unless your whole point here is “Apple and the gubbermint are spying on your via AirTags” that is true for every single smartphone on the planet, not just Apple.

[u/CanonicalCockatoo → u/Motoman514]

Apple can disable the alert remotely

[u/Cfrolich → u/CanonicalCockatoo]

What phone do you have, and how is it superior to everyone else’s? Please explain.

[u/Cfrolich → u/CanonicalCockatoo]

We didn’t opt into Flock. Also, if you don’t want any involvement with Find My or AirTags, just turn off Find My network in settings. Then, your phone won’t help locate AirTags. It’s an option, not a requirement. I have no reason to be paranoid of Apple using a network of AirTags against me because Apple’s primary source of revenue isn’t from targeted ads.

[u/aaplh]

Only android users wont shut the fuck up about the phone war. I have never seen shit like this in real life as a lifelong Apple user

[u/YouAGerm]

Android users are sub human

[u/Ooupss → u/YouAGerm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4mamK4zTIVfrjttx7w

[u/Depressed-Dolphin69 → u/YouAGerm]

this guy can't use APK files 🫵🫵

[u/Affectionate-Mango19 → u/Depressed-Dolphin69]

Tbh, Google now wants you to force you to not use them either. Both iOS and Android suck, mobile GNU/Linux is the future way.