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Nobody likes green text bubbles
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Nobody likes green text bubbles

The color green brings forth mental images of money, lawns, and that one annoying group chat with all the green bubbles.  My friend Thomas Mckenna knows all too well the pains that choosing Android over Apple brings. We both travel to Spikeball tournaments as members of the Hillsdale Roundnet Club, and all our tournament players...

Apple discriminates, Android innovates
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Apple discriminates, Android innovates

Apple knows it can’t compete with the flexibility, affordability, and other advantages of Android phones, so instead it makes me a social outcast. The $3 trillion company thinks it can force me to buy an iPhone by encouraging my friends to exclude my Android phone from group chats. I won’t give in — and for...

Keep the SE: Don’t upgrade your iPhone
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Keep the SE: Don’t upgrade your iPhone

I got a new phone last week, but only because I don’t have to pay for it. Until now, I have owned an iPhone SE (1st generation, released in February 2016), which I bought new almost five years ago. If my parents weren’t buying me a new phone, it would last me for another year....