For those who don’t know:
Texts from iPhone to iPhone appear as blue bubbles, while texts from Android users appear as green.
For many in the US who still use SMS to communicate, the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.
What’s your version of “If everyone knew this was a thing in my country, they’d think it was silly”?
Yeah, I don’t remember anyone from my rl social circle who was opposed to them. Maybe sceptical at first, I think is fair with bleeding edge tech. by now, some of them use an EV as their daily driver and are super happy.
I don’t know anyone who I’d call “Schwurbler”, so it didn’t witness this shift of topis myself, but yeah, that tracks. Good for your neighbour though. I guess we are all quite complex creatures or it was simply a good investment xD
But no, I am still in Germany. I was just under the impression that Tesla was seen as cool in the US due to Musk’s image as a funny, relatable internet guy back then, going as far as to Tesla’s stocks only performing as well due to his very loyal online fanbase, while we in Germany were still to scared to even touch the damn technology, leading to a much higher adoption rate in the US then here. (What a monsterous sentence, I hope it makes sense) But I could be wrong.