Samsung trying to fight iMessage chat elitists with response graphic gallery
Samsung wants owners of its smartphones to know that they can respond to iPhone owners cutting them out of chats -- but they may not want to use what Samsung has provided.
Sampling of Samsung's anti-iMessage response graphics
Samsung has published a series of animated GIF files on Giphy, all ostensibly usable to respond to iPhone users that give them grief because of a green Messages bar.
This was all born because Apple's Messages app handles messages from outside the ecosystem differently. All messages sent from an iOS device or Mac associated with an iCloud account get the blue bar, with other messaging services like SMS getting a green bar.
Group chats in iMessages can also misbehave or render strangely when dealing with SMS senders and recipients. Apple-specific graphics outside of Unicode-mandated emoji won't display well, if at all, on the Android devices, which can leave vital context out of chats.
Given that the Galaxy fold is almost $2000, Samsung should probably reconsider the stack of cash one
Samsung is aggressively pushing the gallery on Instagram, and trying to get social media traction for the initiative with the hashtag #GreenDontCare. It doesn't appear to be going that well at the moment.
The graphics posted on Giphy are universal, and come in white background and no background versions. Thanks to our tipster that "blessed" us with a few, we can confirm that all of the graphics render properly on Android clients, and in iMessages.
All of the graphics are hosted on Giphy. We'll spare you the bandwidth of the animated ones.
Sampling of Samsung's anti-iMessage response graphics
Samsung has published a series of animated GIF files on Giphy, all ostensibly usable to respond to iPhone users that give them grief because of a green Messages bar.
This was all born because Apple's Messages app handles messages from outside the ecosystem differently. All messages sent from an iOS device or Mac associated with an iCloud account get the blue bar, with other messaging services like SMS getting a green bar.
Group chats in iMessages can also misbehave or render strangely when dealing with SMS senders and recipients. Apple-specific graphics outside of Unicode-mandated emoji won't display well, if at all, on the Android devices, which can leave vital context out of chats.
Given that the Galaxy fold is almost $2000, Samsung should probably reconsider the stack of cash one
Samsung is aggressively pushing the gallery on Instagram, and trying to get social media traction for the initiative with the hashtag #GreenDontCare. It doesn't appear to be going that well at the moment.
The graphics posted on Giphy are universal, and come in white background and no background versions. Thanks to our tipster that "blessed" us with a few, we can confirm that all of the graphics render properly on Android clients, and in iMessages.
All of the graphics are hosted on Giphy. We'll spare you the bandwidth of the animated ones.
Comments
Apple, block them.
Swing-and-a-miss.
#DesperateMuch
Are the graphics effective for their intended audience? Who can say. They’re Android people after all.
So petty. They're always envious of Apples products and services.
If they make such a deal about them maybe Sammy should have invented the iPhone.
Hasn't Samsung copied Apple's iMessage yet?
Why is that iguana humping a green torpedo?
Why is that purple monkey (?) with something shoved up its ass blowing a green bubble?
Could these be any worse?
All they're doing by releasing these things is that they do actually care about not being able to connect to iMessage for some reason. It's the only interpretation. As such, management should kill them now before the late night TV shows get hold of it.
This is so desperate I actually feel sorry for them.
People will forgive their envy and nitpick the latest Apple "gate".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_balloon
What I find weird is
- I was not aware there was such a thing as people actually getting consciously* excluded cause they have a green bubble. What sort of a tool would you be to do that to someone?
- why Samsung thought this is good marketing.it is more of an own goal. It emphasises the superior capabilities of a competitor product.
* I could believe it might happen unconsciously if the texters were using some iMessage features that don’t render properly in SMS, but that is kinda like missing out on a party organised via Facebook if you don’t have a Facebook account. Annoying, but you’ll live.The notion of any marketing that points out the envy or whatever this is supposed to be... it’s so wrongheaded.
History repeats.
I do wish android/Windows users can get FaceTime/iMessage for a monthly fee.