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      1 year ago

      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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            1 year ago

            An incredibly weak argument is saying that it’s fine for Apple to intentionally make their UX worse, because they didn’t make it worse enough to matter.

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              They picked a tint of a color used on low priority text. Someone argued that this particular tint is slightly worse for certain people. If you don’t have vision problems, it’s not really worse for you at all. We’re talking about small differences in relative contrast between different elements. If you do have vision problems, you can easily make it and other similar situations across the entire platform easier to read with an accessibility toggle.

              No, I don’t buy the argument that the UX for reading SMS messages is meaningfully worse than for iMessages.

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      1 year ago

      Yeh, not very compelling. Apple has been screwing up usability by reducing the contrast of a lot of screen elements. MacOS window component are horribly washed out these days. Wouldn’t surprise me if they reduced the contrast of the green bubbles just to “improve” the aesthetics

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      1 year ago

      Looks like I’d need an account to see the full article, but did the green bubbles have better contrast in previous iOS versions?