Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.

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.

    • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      Don’t have the article handy but I believe it was wired that reported on the decreasing contrast between the white text and green background across several iterations of iOS.

      Edit: WSJ from 2018. I can’t find a way behind the paywall. And Medium. Also from '18

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          The latter article doesn’t cite decreasing contrast ratios, but notes

          [Apple’s] guidelines state that you should strive for a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 between the text and background colors. Apple’s white text in a blue bubble (iPhone messages) shows a 3.5:1 contrast ratio, while the white text in a green bubble (non-iPhone messages) manages only a 2.1:1 contrast ratio, less than half the recommended minimum contrast

          • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            I saw that, but that doesn’t state what the other person is stating.

            We can ascertain no intent but they assert one as malice which is why I pressed their claim.