It’s all about the bubbles.

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

  • IGMKI@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As someone from the EU, I’m so confused about why this would matter to people. At that age, people will just find any excuse to bully regardless of what it is, it’s why uniforms don’t work either for those purposes. Hell, if someone were to try and shame me for the fucking color of my messages I’d be thankful, they’ve shown me another cunt to avoid associating with. In that sense it might actually be useful. (also, who even uses sms anymore?)

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s because of everyone’s need to fit in. Teenagers are in that weird limbo state where they have a need to fit in but don’t have the maturity to say, “No, I don’t need an iPhone just because Billy has one.” And they generally have access to the money required to fit in, either because their parents will buy it for them or because they worked enough to get one.

      For the record, I don’t blame teenagers for this. The decision-making part of the brain (the prefrontal cortex) doesn’t even finish maturing until their mid-20s. The part of the brain that deals with emotions (the amygdala) matures way before then, so they’re impulsive, emotional, and not rational (or at least not even close to how rational the average adult should be).