I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.
In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.
Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?
It’s not a tech-classist thing, it’s a human thing. At our core, we are tribal. We take sides. Android vs. iPhone. Windows vs. Mac. Linux vs. everyone. Sports team A vs. Sports team B. Republican vs. Democrat. Musk vs. Zuck. Cats vs. Dogs. Everything. We take sides on everything.
Musk vs. Zuck
Do I have to pick one.
No. You can watch both their executions for crimes against humanity split-screen.
You can go with Tim Apple Cook.
And those are all a “deal-breaker in friendships” for you? I think we all realize people find all sorts of reasons to use us-vs-them mindset, that’s not really the point of this conversation. What reasons you choose to make your friends or otherwise be decent to someone decides whether or not you’re being immature or even a bigot.
If you take sides in something as fucking inane as “Windows vs. Mac” or “iPhone vs. Android” to the point of hurting your supposed friends, that’s not a human thing. That’s an asshole thing. Don’t be an asshole. Or stop claiming to be a friend. (Or a human, for that matter.)
The only ‘vs.’ argument that is proper to argue about is Emacs vs. Vim. (The correct side in that debate is 无.)
neovim of course
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