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Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (66 children)

I'm still unclear on why this whole thing is so important that it's worth putting time and money into finding a solution for the color of word bubbles.

Edit: all this time I thought it was just an argument over bubble colors. But no, it's also potato quality videos and pictures ruining every group message with both Apple and Android in the mix.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (28 children)

Its not just the word bubbles. Pictures and videos come through on Android like complete shit. I can't even have my wife send me pictures of the kids cause I can't see them on the other end. Nor can I watch family videos sent to me. Its much more than simple colors, but of course kids are getting bullied for that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Now this makes sense, thank you. Garbage quality video and pictures are a so annoying. It seems to ruin an entire group chat if one of them is on an iPhone. I often have to wait until I see someone in person or have them send it through a different app for the video to work.

I have yet to get a group conversation to switch to Signal or something to avoid the potato quality videos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yea, this is a USA problem. Elsewhere everyone just uses a messaging app of their network's choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It’s not entirely true. In Scandinavia for example, iPhone is the majority market share, on average higher than that of United States.

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