— Brian X. Chen, New York Times:
For more than a decade, smartphone users everywhere have faced a major problem in how we communicate: the “green versus blue bubble” disparity.
No Brian, not everywhere. Green bubble shaming is an entirely American thing. I’ve never met anyone in Europe who takes issue with the background colour of the text messages they’re receiving.
— The App Store turns 15 these days and people share their first apps on the Internet. My first iPhone was the 4, which I bought in July 2011, so I didn’t install any apps on the day the App Store opened. But here are the apps I downloaded on my day one anyway:
Five social networks, none of which I use today, six if you count WhatsApp, a note-taking app and planner for the German rail. Only two of these survive on my phone today: WhatsApp and DB Navigator. It was a different time.