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On 2024-03-23 09:55, badgolferman wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-03-23, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>> Your Name wrote:
>>>> On 2024-03-22 18:36:02 +0000, badgolferman said:
>>>>
>>>>> The Justice Department called out Apple for afflicting Android
>>>>> smartphone users with the dreaded “green bubble” in text messages —
>>>>> calling it a mark of “social stigma, exclusion and blame” as part
>>>>> of its landmark antitrust case against the iPhone maker.
>>>>>
>>>>> “Green bubble” status has long been a source of mockery online,
>>>>> with some women even jokingly declaring that they find men who own
>>>>> Androids less attractive.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the past, Apple rivals like Google have demanded that the
>>>>> company “fix” texting.
>>>>>
>>>>> [Snip]
>>>>
>>>> The colour is there for a reason. Apple's Messages has features not
>>>> available in normal texting, the difference in the bubble's colours
>>>> let users know which can use those features and which cannot.
>>>
>>> I can't understand the people fixated over the colour of message
>>> bubbles on their phones... I've not met one person in real life, be
>>> they Android or iOS user - who's ever mentioned the colour of message
>>> bubbles. (Really!) Yet on Usenet there's people frothing at the mouth
>>> in anger or pee peeing themselves with excitement over green and blue
>>> message bubbles. WTF?!
>>>
>>> Get a life people!
>>
>> The OP, badgolferman, and his buddy Arlen ("Gelato" and his many other
>> nyms) are resident trolls who regularly bitch and moan about green
>> bubbles, yellow iPhones, and so on as a ruse to belittle anyone who
>> dares to like using Apple products. Not how "Gelato's" only contribution
>> to this thread is to call people juvenile names like "iSheep" and claim
>> they are all idiots. badgolferman posts the bait, people respond, then
>> Arlen swoops in with his trolls and insults. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's
>> a childish and frankly boring game they play. ; )
>>
> 
> You should add the DOJ to your list of Apple trolls too.
> 

This is politics that the DoJ is engaged in...

....not justice.