The whole argument is ridiculous because it’s only the messages that you wrote and sent that are even on a blue or green color. The messages you read are always on the same light gray background regardless of how they sent.
It’s just an incredibly weak argument. Messages that you, yourself, wrote are in slightly lower contrast? Who cares? For users who actually have vision problems with low-contrast, there’s a single Reduce Transparency toggle in Accessibility settings that will resolve this issue and a bunch of other ones.
People do care for some reason. Psychology or something, here’s Marques Brownlee’s pretty in depth explanation of the whole thing. It seems like Apple has been aware of the issues and happy to keep them/make them worse since at least 2013
People care that SMS and MMS suck. “Green messages” is just a shorthand, nontechnical way of describing it. Nobody legitimately cares that the green background is every-so-slightly lower contrast than the blue background.
The whole argument is ridiculous because it’s only the messages that you wrote and sent that are even on a blue or green color. The messages you read are always on the same light gray background regardless of how they sent.
People never re-read their own texts, good point.
It’s just an incredibly weak argument. Messages that you, yourself, wrote are in slightly lower contrast? Who cares? For users who actually have vision problems with low-contrast, there’s a single Reduce Transparency toggle in Accessibility settings that will resolve this issue and a bunch of other ones.
People do care for some reason. Psychology or something, here’s Marques Brownlee’s pretty in depth explanation of the whole thing. It seems like Apple has been aware of the issues and happy to keep them/make them worse since at least 2013
People care that SMS and MMS suck. “Green messages” is just a shorthand, nontechnical way of describing it. Nobody legitimately cares that the green background is every-so-slightly lower contrast than the blue background.
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here’s Marques Brownlee’s pretty in depth explanation
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