Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as an eloquent, well-rounded summary of the blue-versus-green bubble issue.
What it is
Marques Brownlee explains why iMessage's blue and green bubbles matter, covering the technical, commercial and social side of Apple's messaging lock-in. It also discusses RCS and what could be done about it.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends aurizon · 2022-01 · on “Blue Bubbles vs. Green Bubbles – The iMessage Lock-In [video]”
A clever and nefarious tactic - makes me wonder how this can be mis-used for assorted malevolence. What about beards? Red hair? This 'tube does a good summary of it, he is very eloquent. [this video]
Recommends martinflack · 2022-04 · on “Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years”
For a long-form answer, Marques Brownlee has a video[0] that discusses the technical, commercial, and social aspects. [0] [this video]
Cites max_ · 2023-10 · on “Ask HN: Why did the iPhone win over Windows phones?”
Because the angle of the iPhone was not to be pragmatic or cheap. The value proposition of something is not in what it already has in comparison to other items, but in what it offers that other items don't. Let's talk about programming languages for example. In APL [1] there are no loops, no keywords, but that is not the value proposition of APL. It's value comes from the fact that you can think about complex programs very effectively and write complex programs in very short statements in a quick amount of time. Let's also talk about luxury brands like Louis Vuitton bags/shirts. It's not that the buyers get those bags/shirts at 10x - 100x the price of a normal bag because they are stupid. Th