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It reminds me how MacOS has the icon for any networked Windows PC as a “blue screen of death” monitor

I had to check to see if you were kidding. You're not. That's hilarious. Petty, and hilarious.

That's almost as good as the Windows Vista/7 icon for "Network" -- computers connected to a pneumatic tube (referencing Senator Ted Stevens and his "series of tubes" comment).

I found it especially funny that it still uses that icon for Linux machines with Samba shares.

Unless you enable fruit vfs then it thinks it's a mac but doesn't not what model you so get a big question mark.

Actually love this one lol

they want to prepare you :)

...which suggests that the notion that some designer at Apple subtly decreased the contrast on green bubbles to make them look "gross" is ridiculous -- if they really wanted to make SMS messages look bad, they could be much less subtle about it...

Be less subtle? Serving what purposes? Getting slammed by the EU and the like?

They have to be very, very subtle, and ride the fine line between effectiveness and outrage, never going too much on a side or the other. The best and most enduring conspiration theories have originated from such deliberate and surgical manipulations. The goal they are after: most people will unknowingly abide and be manipulated, while the minority will go nuts proclaiming they know the truth.

Welcome to propaganda 101, aka destructive marketing.

Google offered several times to work with Apple to get full compatibility with their messages. Apple refused every time. This is Apple's deliberate choice.

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