Monopoly On Derp: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Sounds Off On Apple iPhone And Gets Blasted

Leave it to Elizabeth Warren to focus on an issue that's 1/1024th as important as the many problems facing our nation. We have a border crisis, average Americans feeling the price crunch of high inflation, and growing threats of war but Chief Spitting Bull is focused on the color of text message bubbles. -- Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren: “It’s time to break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly. Also, c’mon, let’s stop leaving green text people out of the group chats. It’s just not right.” -- You either listened to all that, stabbed your ears with the nearest sharp object about halfway through, or couldn't bring yourself to click it. Here's a quick summary: When Apple iPhone users text each other, it uses Apple's iMessage service, and your text messages are surrounded by a blue bubble. When a non-iPhone user messages you, it doesn't use iMessage and your text messages appear in a green bubble.

In Senator Warren's mind this is greenbubblephobic … or something like that. Apple is 'ruining relationships'. Yep, she said that. *Google* green text people: "Green text messages on an iPhone indicate that the message was sent using MMS/SMS instead of iMessage." So people are still getting the message but it has a green background and that's a problem the government needs to fix… FFS. That's right. Apple is not blocking text messages or anything of that sort. They're just a different color. Back in the day, Democrats loved segregating people by color, but that was quite a bit worse than text message color schemes. We digress. I can guarantee that this sounded just as stupid in the original smoke signals. But are the smoke signals green if she's using an Android blanket? It all seems like an awfully ridiculous thing for a U.S. Senator to be focused on. Are we supposed to believe people actually care what color text message bubbles are?

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