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Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU. (www.theverge.com)

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Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (5 children)

In the US at least, sadly, it’s imessage. It’s a weird social thing - if you have “green bubbles” people really look down on you.

It’s dumb and superficial, but it works.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

In the US

It’s dumb and superficial

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So they hook you while you're an insecure teen and by the time you grow up you're too entrenched in their ecosystem?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

They hook you into an ecosystem. That's it, thats the game. I don't think it has too much to do with insecurity. Group chats and video chats with people outside of imessage is awful. Group chats lose a lot of features because SMS was all there was for a long time. Standard (not Google-ified) RCS is still too bare at the moment so I don't think the looming rcs fixes that aspect of it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Yep. Damn near every tween with a phone just HAS to have an iPhone. If you offered a kid a used regular iPhone 12 with a Crack in the screen, or a new Samsung s24 ultra, they're taking the iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The solution to green bubbles? Use Signal, which has blue bubbles across all platforms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Signal lets me customize the bubble (and background) colors. I can still make everyone green if I wanted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Copying my comment from a month ago -

“Finally!

… being able to send longer messages, sending high quality pictures, read receipts, typing indicators, GIFs, location sharing, the ability to send and receive messages over Wi-Fi, and improved group messaging.

And you still see folks thinking color is what’s important.”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Honestly, it's the first thing to come out of iPhone users mouths, and when you tell them about Signal, more often than not they say "eww I'm not installing another app".

They'd rather an Android user spend another $1200 than install a free app. It's not features, it's elitism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I graduated school before smartphones were everywhere but I got a pretty mad when I learned about this. the kids are not ok