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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: green bubble syndrome
Date: 23 Mar 2024 22:10:09 GMT
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On 2024-03-23, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> 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. 

When the DOJ posts childish trolls here in these newsgroups, I will.  In
the meantime, you're just deflecting as usual. Your trolls are as
juvenile and weak as your intellect.

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