Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’

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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

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Also Apple has intentionally made the Android text bubble less readable, so it has a concrete impact

how is white on green less readable than white on blue? please elaborate.

how is white on green less readable than white on blue? please elaborate.

They've chosen the green so there's a much lower difference in contrast between the white and green when compared to the white and blue