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The fact that people care about whether their messages are blue or green is so absolutely ridiculous.
I’ve known people who literally refuse to message anyone who doesn’t use iMessage (and by extension has an iPhone).
Every one of them turned out to be a twat in every other facet of their personality as well.
Its not absolutely ridiculous and you sound like an idiot who thinks that everyone lives in the same little bubble as you.
Thanks for proving my third statement.
It’s not blue vs green but encrypted or not.
It’s definitely the blue vs green bubbles. Your average user doesn’t even know iMessage is E2EE. They also don’t care.
Def agree that the vast majority don’t care about E2EE (though that’s probably growing with more news articles like that one where they went after someone for abortion and got their Facebook messages to prove it) I think it’s less about blue/green and more about how shitty the interop is. I don’t know anyone who is like “I won’t talk to green bubbles” but I know plenty who get annoyed when it fucks up the group chat or either side is stuck looking at a postage-stamp sized grainy image (if it even gets delivered.) Really, really blows that the predominate message services in the states are Apple-only iMessage, owned by Facebook, or SMS. I’m over 30, so I am not on Snap and most of my friends aren’t, I refuse to use Facebook products, so we’re stuck with SMS.
Yeah use Signal. Encrypted messages without a thousand dollar dependency.
Messaging apps in general are basically walled gardens.
Gasp, we should try making a federated alternative.
This is literally perpetuated by schoolyard bullying. Anyone over the age of 20 will very likely be entirely out of touch with how big a deal green/blue is for pre-teens and teens these days. It’s pretty much a cornerstone in teen social structures.
You sure it’s about that? What I heard is that being outside of “trusted” zone means less features such as media and encryption. Also the person in this article says apple users are basically forced to use sms to send messages to Android users. I too would not want to resort to plain paid messages if my partner doesn’t have the right app.
I worked in the cellular space for about 20 years off and on before moving to other pastures. I guarantee you that maybe one in a thousand think like you.
BY FAR the average buyer that Apple targets come in two flavors.
First, the “I’m cool and all my friends are doing it” and second is the “I’m the father, I don’t personally give a shit but my daughter/son wants us all to be on iMessage.”
IPhone users have access to WhatsApp, Signal, and other apps android users use to communicate without sms
Yeah, but iphone users are different as they already have some default app that they could use instead of installing other apps. Wouldn’t they want to use that default app as often as possible if their partners have the same ability from their pov? I mean it’s not about the color as the original comment thinks, but about the stuff that the different color implies. Not the thing that is nice to the eyes, but the actual convenience and price.
The problem is that, in the US and Canada, android users don’t tend to use those apps en masse. The vast majority use SMS.
I think at this point the majority of Android users use RCS, which Apple is actually going to implement next year.
That’s good to know. Though I wish people I knew, both apple and android, would switch to Signal instead.
It’s not as good as we want it to be. Those using RCS on Android are almost all using Google’s specific implementation, Apple is instead going to be using a more standard implementation. It’s probably going to work better than SMS, but it’s going to be a far cry from everyone just using any modern internet messaging service.
Beeper is more than that. Beeper MINI is about that. But I’ve been using Beeper on my PC for the past year because I am so tired of picking up my phone a million times a day just to send someone a message. I’d say probably 90% of the people I know use iPhone/iMessage so having the ability to message them on desktop was a lifesaver for me. Really bummed it’s not working anymore.
Why doesn’t apple make web messaging available like Android?
Then you won’t need Apple hardware to use it
This reminds me of the blackberry ping days, everyone and their mom acting like a diva for having a sidekick blackberry just to use ping.
Those were better days financially.
BBM was the jam back in the days before iPhone. If you wanted to be in on the group chats you needed a blackberry. In the last little bit they opened it up to more devices but the gig was up.
I still miss their icons.
They were never popular over here outside of business users, I always liked the tiny red LED. Sure, I can make the flag on my iPhone blink on new messages, but it’s not the same
Yes the light was the best. Some of the early android devices tried to carry on with this practice but screen time attention I suspect won the day
But Android phones still have multicolor notification led. In fact it blows my mind that iPhones don’t, I wouldn’t even consider a phone without it anymore.
It’s because it breaks all the nice extra functionality of iMessage. iMessage is closer to Discord chats; You can do things like react to messages, send live emojis, spoiler/emphasize text, edit/delete sent messages, see when someone is typing, see read receipts, automatically send check-ins when you arrive at a destination, draw doodles, send full quality media, share galleries natively, etc… But as soon as someone with an android joins the group chat, all of that goes out the window and you’re stuck with boring old SMS.
Is it intentionally hostile on Apple’s part to bar androids from joining? Yes. But the reactions from Apple users aren’t entirely unjustified, because they’re left with a noticeably reduced feature set as soon as someone forces them to use green bubbles.
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Is it intentionally hostile on Apple’s part to bar androids from joining? Yes. But the reactions from Apple users aren’t entirely unjustified
The reaction from Apple users is to blame Android users - which is entirely unjustified.
But of course, post purchase rationalization and brand loyalty play a big part in why people want to externalize blame rather than questioning their own decision or blaming their favorite company for providing a shitty cross-platform messaging experience.
So why not use something like WhatsApp or Signal instead then? Sounds like a terrible user experience to me. Nobody I know uses iMessage, everybody uses WhatsApp instead, which is platform agnostic.
But I’m European, so the iPhone penetration is lower iirc and they can’t stay in their bubble as much.
Because Whatsapp users are just as big “twats” as you call it. Try functioning without Whatsapp in Europe, you can’t, and no amount of excuses will get you out of it.
Any messaging network starts acting like peer pressure once enough people around you are using it
I’m personally dying to see the DMA do its magic. If there’s even a dreamy chance of not having to have the big messaging apps installed on my phone in order to talk to people on these platforms, then I don’t want to stop dreaming.
In theory it would be trivial to open up the big networks, if they were each willing to expose a public, open API. The APIs don’t even have to be interoperable directly, they could let the client apps deal with that. It could be rolled out super fast if they wanted to – couple of months.
But of course none of them actually wants this, so I expect they will fight it tooth and nail, while not appearing to do so. Meaning they’ll drag this out for as long as possible while blaming each other. I expect RCS will be a perfect red herring for this, because of its complexity and the ability to blame interop issues on each other.
Wut? I’m in Europe and I’ve never had WhatsApp in my life.
My point wasn’t specifically about Whatsapp, it’s that you have to use what the others around you use.
yeah people should use this a a filter for people they should be avoiding.
Yes had a business owner come in and demand all employee phones be iPhone or get out. Jobs was his personal hero and thought Apple could do no wrong. The issue was the company he bought was run on software made for Windows. A lot of extra effort went into making it work on macbooks he insisted we all use.
In the end he believed he was as great as Jobs. Not sure that’s a great role model across the board for those that know more than just the apple procducts. The family values and toxic *work practices were not for everyone.
I was glad to get out of that company and back to my android phone and now Linux computing.
I will say the 3 good things about my iPhone was the camera, the full resolution media sharing with other iPhone users via iMessage, and the gallery uploading to other iOS devices.
The latter two are still a weakness with Google. At least they are addressing it with RCS but its still going to take time. Google photos has cloud back up but I’ve not really looked into how seamless the media backup to all android devices has been.
Google photos is just cloud back up like iCloud backup for iOS devices.
Google photos is also on iOS devices, so you could have your photos on any of your devices.
I don’t know what may have changed as I am an iPhone user, but about 10 years ago I worked in a small security role for a fairly large company, and the communications company we were using was more than happy to hand over sms logs as plain text. I would personally never send messages to anyone I was sure wasn’t encrypted and I can tell that by the blue bubble. I just don’t know when it is green.
I don’t know what has changed as I don’t keep up with it, but I am still dubious about messaging outside the Apple ecosystem, which is ok for me as I live in a country where most people use iOS
RCS on Android defaults to E2E encryption now since some year back, and Signal has been around for a long time now
Welcome to Middle School. Blue bubble and ‘Find My’ support are feature drivers. You’re either in or out.
Ironically, Spotify and x-platform playlist sharing (aka mixtapes) drive counter-adoption.
Go figure.
Apparently it breaks group chats, notwithstanding that it’s an Apple problem, Signal exists and doesn’t feature any of this nonsense.
I’m in more than one group chat with android people, and it’s fine.
It’s just that you can’t use some iMessage features. But nothing is really broken.
Uh. It’s not that. Along w that is videos w potato quality, messages that never make it. Of course anyone reading your comment knows you missed the point.
Yeah.
Because Apple has a proprietary messaging format. They won’t adopt the standard the rest of the world uses or open theirs up for others to use.
They uh… are going to support rcs very soon so…
Doesn’t change that it’s shitty now and has been for years.
They don’t get credit for the EU pressuring them to be less shitty.
Yeah, I get that I wish they had done rcs earlier or whatever. Like I get not opening iMessage up, but at least support the best standard out there would be nice. MMS and sms are garbo
By choice or by force?
Hard to say. I think some eu stuff might have pressured a bit
Meanwhile, Whatsapp continues to be the most used messaging app in the world, with no sms or any other sort of fallback if you don’t have an internet connection.
What’s the point of even using iMessage when there’s so many better options for messaging.
Honestly let’s have some dignity and not buy into this vapid pretentious idiocy.
Right, I don’t understand why these weird hacky services are making headlines. If you want to have a blue bubble, just buy an iPhone. They’re not actually THAT expensive, you can usually buy last year’s model for under $500 if you wait for a deal and you’re willing to commit to a carrier. Or if you really can’t afford that, you can get an older iPhone basically for free. Even a 3 year old model gets you a blue bubble.
Or, if you’re not an insecure child that gives in to peer pressure, get whatever phone you want.
The point is open communication standard and tech illiterates like yourself keep repeating this Apple propaganda. Maybe read a wiki page or something idk
They’re adopting RCS next year. That’s the open standard.
Having iMessage on Android is dumb.
*They said they’re adopting it next year
in other news 2.2 came 3 years ago
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If you want to have a blue bubble, just buy an iPhone.
Expense aside they’re simply worse products. Can’t choose what software to put on it. Can’t repair it. Can’t change your dialer or your SMS app. I mean the list goes on.
lol ok.
The vast majority of androids are worse for repairability. The ones that get more than a year or two of support don’t have any parts available. The ones that do get support have far worse physical restrictions like straight up gluing parts in.
The rest you mention, >99% of people don’t do anyway.
Are you talking about iPhone? Because repairing an iPhone requires specialist tools and specialist software. Oh, and it’s all glued together. 100% of people are unable to repair their own iPhone with replacement parts because parts are serialized and require proprietary software to unlock.
If you want to support these anti-consumer practices, that’s up to you, but there’s really no need to spread misinformation.
lol the only specialist tool you need is the pentalobe screwdriver and a suction cup. None of the rest is needed, it just makes it easy.
And unlocking the hardware for use just requires calling Apple support and saying “hey I’ve replaced this part and need it unlocked, here’s the serial”.
Nothing in an iPhone is solidly glued in. The battery has a couple of pull tabs to make it easy to remove. Something like a Samsung it’s damn near impossible to remove because the entire battery is glued down.
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But if you care, you can get a repairable phone like the Fairphone.
The vast majority of androids are worse for repairability
Yes but I can choose to purchase an Android that has good repairability. Apple, once again, doesn’t give you that choice.
The ones that do get support have far worse physical restrictions like straight up gluing parts in
Gluing components in is standard practice across the industry.
What’s absolutely not standard is intentionally serializing the parts and then refusing to make the software available so that their consumers cannot repair the hardware they “own”.
Or negotiating contracts with component suppliers to ensure they don’t sell components to third party repair companies.
Or sending ICE to raid companies who manage to get them regardless.
It’s an incredibly disrespectful and user-hostile company.
You literally only have to call Apple to have it unlocked.
Have what unlocked?
This.
I had an iPhone for a decade with my work. Quit both of them and got an android. I’m way happier being able to do things more than one way and to be able to customize everything.
Phones in general suck, but if the shitty, android at least let’s you do what you want.
My thoughts exactly. It’s fucking childish to make such a fuss over the color of a text bubble. These kids need to grow up.
It’s not just the blue bubble though. It’s being able to send and receive full quality pictures and videos to iPhone users without having to get them to install a 3rd party app. All the old people in my family have iPhone. They won’t learn Signal. Beeper bridged that gap.
Then use ANY other messaging service. Preferably Signal, but if that doesn’t work… Facebook, Whatsapp, literally anything.
no one i know uses signal
Then use ANY other messaging service. Preferably Signal,
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but if that doesn’t work… Facebook, Whatsapp, literally anything.
So Facebook, or Facebook? That might work for most people, but when there’s an open protocol right there, I’d rather steer clear of their products and services
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Sounds like an iOS problem for iOS users to deal with. If I have a family member with Android, we just agree on a chat service to use and iMessage isn’t even a part of that conversation. Older members who need help can get their stuff set up during a family visit, until which a few green bubbles won’t hurt anyone.
Here’s how this goes for most people in the US:
If I have a family member with Android,
we just agree on a chat service to use and iMessage isn’tthey’re not even a part of that conversation.
Peer pressure…?
I mean, I guess if you’re 16.
Exactly, it’s childish
Even a 3 year old model gets you a blue bubble.
Damn, we calling 3 years old now? My iPhone 6 must be from the Paleolithic era then.
Lol I said it’s 3 years old, not “old”. That’s the not-so-secret secret of today’s phones: a 2 or 3 year old phone works just fine.
I have a 5 year old iphone, it’s great. I can’t imagine it’s worth anything, just noting it works for every day use. You don’t need a new phone at all for anything.
ETA: I just NFC-charged my local transit card with my ancient-ass iphone the other day which is a thing I didn’t honestly know it could do yesterday. I’m not trolling, I don’t know what has been offered in the last 5 years on either platform that is at all required to use a phone, as long as Apple continues to support the phone with OS updates.
So how is someone who makes a conscious choice giving into peer pressure and insecure
No other introspective reasons why someone could select a phone othe than an iPhone.
I didn’t say that people only buy iPhones because of peer pressure. I said that buying an iPhone due to peer pressure is silly.
what’s alternative
They said if you’re buying solely based bubble color then it’s based on peer pressure, there of course are other valid reasons for someone to choose one and there are also other bad reasons.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It appears that Beeper Mini, an easy iMessage solution for Android, was simply too good to be true — or a short-lived dream, at least.
On Friday, less than a week after its launch, the app started experiencing technical issues when users were suddenly unable to send and receive blue bubble messages.
Several people at The Verge were unable to activate their Android phone numbers with Beeper Mini as of Friday afternoon, a clear indication that Apple has plugged up whatever holes allowed the app to operate to begin with.
The belief — or I suppose the hope — among Beeper’s developers and users was that it would be such an ordeal for Apple to block the Android app that doing so wouldn’t be worth the hassle.
Previous attempts to get iMessage working on Android — like Beeper’s original app — have involved complex systems with remote Macs logged into a user’s Apple ID.
Nothing, the startup from OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, recently sought to bring iMessage to its latest phone, but that plan was quickly derailed by security and privacy concerns.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Who fucking cares?
The original article contains 450 words, the summary contains 3 words. I am not a bot.
Edit: look at all the butthurt Apple fanboys.
“Oh, what’s this unauthorized bullshit on our servers?”
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I’m just surprised that it took this long
same. there seems to be a lot of people that don’t realize some things don’t get done, not because they’re impossible, but because as soon as they do it a company will put a stop to it.
it’s like cracking a Xbox or something. the very next patch will render the method obsolete and nonviable. when i heard this workaround was coming for Android, my immediate reaction was how long it would last before Apple just changed something so that it doesn’t work.
Their hope was that they got close enough to an actual Apple device that breaking it would break Apple devices. It turns out they weren’t close enough, but they could be with a few improvements.
My bum has a crack, can they fix that?
Back it up on my hard drive and I’ll close your gaping security hole with my hotfix, sweetheart.
Probably had to be extra careful to test. MDM software software might get glitched out.
I’m really curious about how it was detected, how it was different from Apple devices. If nothing else I’m looking forward to reading about how that all worked.
It is usually easy to detect a specific client. Like even if you ignore the keys there are dozens of little details like the TLS fingerprint of whatever library they use not matching iOS. Things that are easy to miss and sometimes hard to bypass. Then there are heuristics on how it is used is likely unique.
From what I understand, their guess is that Apple is now checking if the device also has support for other services, such as FaceTime. Beeper Mini and pypush don’t pretend to support FaceTime, so it breaks.
Who cares?
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People that upvote the post, which seems to outnumber the people that are doing the opposite.
No one that has a brain.
Spoiler - it’s working again. Might be teething problems for a new service.
it’s working again
No it isn’t. If you read the article, the lead developer is pointing fingers at Apple, so no, not a “teething problem” either.
I literally sent a message right before posting.
You may be able to get a message out here and there but I’m in a public group with hundreds of users and no one’s is working.
They did eventually ~fix it though~. (Only about 6 hours ago).
Check your app store for an update to the app.
Edit: it’s only partially fixed as of right now.
The last update I got from Eric was at 1:30AM saying they still hadn’t fixed it and they’re calling it a night.
The old-style Matrix bridges still work, to be clear.
Ah, yeah, looks like they got it working but only for some accounts:
And…we might have spoken a bit too soon. It’s not working for all accounts yet. More work to do, we’re going to sleep now but back at it tomorrow.
That’s Beeper Cloud, not Beeper Mini.
why can’t you simply foster openness and community god fucking dammit
Scum company
They’re adopting RCS next year, what more do they need to do?
Putting iMessage on Android just gives them a whole lot more control over the messaging ecosystem.
Because if they opened their walled off garden, there’s a chance they might lose profit and if they do, their CEOs might not be able to afford their diamond studded swimming pools and solid gold Humvees. Those things don’t grow on trees.
Money.
iPhone user here, because Apple likes money.
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Well, because it’s Apple.
It’s a very expensive walled garden
There’s dollars to be extracted.
I don’t give a flying fuck about it.
No one with a brain does.
is opinion
I have never needed iMessage in my life and I haven’t even seen it. Proprietary messaging apps are not trustworthy.
Can all the folks saying “I don’t care” on this just stop? If this doesn’t affect you, why are you commenting at all?
Some smart folks managed to reverse engineer Apple’s secretive tech that they refuse to put on any platform they don’t own, which is fucking awesome. Even if you don’t give a shit about using iMessage, it’s awesome they were able to stick it to Apple at all, and make the gap between iPhone and Android that much smaller.
And of course Apple comes in and breaks it. Do you not wonder why? Does this mean there was a minor security hole that was exploited or was it something else that changed? This arms race is fascinating, regardless of your preferred mobile OS.
Can all the folks saying “I don’t care” on this just stop? If this doesn’t affect you, why are you commenting at all?
Haven’t you heard? Lemmings are all about “Stay alone in a basement and never get out and socialize, because people use something you don’t agree with. If they really want to talk to you, they’ll switch.”
They didn’t, but now they’re on lemmy with more people with the same attitude, trying to socialize but never realizing why they don’t have any friends.
Reddit migration brought all the entitled, self agrandizing, freeloading, weirdos to the fediverse.
people use something you can’t use because walled garden
joined 1 month ago
I read that it was a 16 year old kid which makes it more fascinating
We’re literally on a platform designed to escape these closed ecosystems and walled gardens. A platform built around open communication standards.
And still there’s a downright bizarre contingent of people around here that seem to be chomping at the bit to defend or downplay Apple’s iMessage shit.
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Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
It’s relevant though. Attack their argument if you think it’s bad, but don’t say they were being off topic, because they were not.
is you don’t know what goes on in the real world relevant
everything i don’t like is entitled
That’s funny when most of the comments are saying “just use WhatsApp” as if that’s not a walled garden for messaging.
Isn’t RCS an open communication standard?
Yes, but no. RCS itself is. Google RCS however, not especially. Google keeps promising to open up the bits they’ve tacked on but have yet to. Which includes things like the open end-to-end encryption. Apple will be implementing vanilla RCS which does not have that yet. But they have claimed if I remember correctly that they are going to help develop that. I don’t know if I believe that or if that’s just something they said to foster some false Goodwill
I’ve found the complete opposite on here. Outside of the apple communities but even those get trolled/downvoted from nerds browsing all like everything else.
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Not everything should be centered in America, or exclusively to what happens there.
That’s literally the opposite of what’s happening.
Rule no°1 on Reddit/Lemmy: Every user is part of the US unless stated different.
I understand that. But that doesn’t have anything to do with my point, which is that if someone doesn’t care about this issue, they don’t need to show how much they don’t care.
In fact, I would argue that your general sentiment – that of considering others in different situations than oneself – applies more to the people acting like this topic doesn’t matter because it doesn’t affect them personally.
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I really don’t understand who the fuck cares about this shit. OMG! Can’t believe the world we’re living in now
Which losers are downvoting ? Show yourself, allow me to make an example outta you.
The fuck you gonna do, child? I hate both Google and Apple, downvoting you for sport.
Lol you sound like a apple fanboi aka THE KEYBOARD Warrior lol
who invite gen alpha ._.
More like Alpha Male. We don’t have time to worry about chat color and shit coz we busy banging yo mom.
If you have to say you’re an alpha, you’re not
is also tate fan ._.
I fucking hate Apple. Can you read?
I downvoted your comment because it didn’t contribute into the discussion.
Fair enough but I gotta ask are you an apple fanboi or android ?
Neither, I guess? Both have advantages and disadvantages.
Lol I can tell that’s a lie. You sound like a apple fanboi. You just don’t want to accept that
If it satisfies the way in which you want to label me, ok. For what it’s worth, I’m typing this on a Pixel 7 and own a MacBook and a Windows 11 desktop for different purposes.
neither. both suck.
Illegal Anti-Competitive / Cartel behaviour, yes??
Apple, you are only exempt-from-law UNTIL the regulators decide to do their jobs honestly.
THEN, you’re hosed.
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I mean, even the EU already exempted iMessage from the new rules.
Because they already follow a standard. SMS and MMS.
And with them adopting RCS? There’s nothing they can force to open iMessage.
They exempted iMessage because it’s not big in Europe. If it were as big as in the US it would’ve fallen under the DMA.
Exactly I don’t know a single person in Europe who uses or cares about iMessages. This is in the US only.
Curious, what are the most popular apps used?
In the Netherlands: whatsapp. You can’t avoid whatsapp here. Telegram is used by a smaller fraction, but it got a bit of a bad rep during the pandemic due to primarily attracting anti-vax rioters.
In Japan and a lot of Asia, most people use LINE.
According to this:
- FB Messenger
- Viber
- Telegram
I use Telegram.
To be notified by my selfhosted bots
Literally everyone I know uses WhatsApp. It’s probably been over a decade since I last sent or received an actual SMS (except for 2FA codes).
I’d rather not use a meta application just to send an SMS. I have WhatsApp but it’s only for communication with overseas relatives.
With RCS I don’t see the appeal of WhatsApp
The appeal is: 100% of your family and friends use it. A good fraction of businesses use it for customer service too. Not using it will have you left out of a pretty big chunk of social life.
And that mindset is why iMessage is popular in the US /shrug
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WhatsApp
I have seen some iphone users use it with some other iphone users. But it’s very rare.
TIL iMessage is still a thing.
Tentatively exempted. The decision isn’t final.
As someone who doesn’t care about the blue bubble crap once Apple announced RCS the other person using iMessage means nothing to me.
Huurrr durrr so edgy and cool
Are you a fucking child?
rude [.__.]
It isn’t “Androids “ anything. It’s a third party app. Way to stir things up.
Agreed!
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