The merger is still something that I’m 50/50 on because it made T-Mobile’s service so much more reliable, and iirc Sprint was genuinely struggling.

It still sucks that Boost isn’t going anywhere

Clothing gets you negative comments. iMessage gets people to exclude you from group chats or even text messaging completely. It’s become far more socially acceptable to isolate someone because of what they don’t own.

Even if this were the same level of bullying, the amount of resources that Apple needs to fix this is negligible compared to clothing companies or whathaveyou. You can’t update a shirt. You can easily update the color of a bubble or implement an industry standard. Apple refuses to even try to fix this issue, and in my eyes, they’re 100% complicit in enabling bullying.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. The problem isn’t the fact that the indicator exists. A lot of it is because it’s an ugly green bubble, and Apple refuses to change it because bullying kids is great marketing for Apple.

India is a huge market for WhatsApp

Is it not proprietary due to carriers being extremely fussy?

To add onto what other commenters said:

1. It isn’t legally mandated, only customary
2. If it was mandatory, such a mandate would probably be illegal
3. Plenty of teachers and school officials (but not most) will be pissed/will punish you if you don’t do the pledge.

Children deserve privacy like the rest of us do.

This is a serious threat to our democracy.

Edit: This is extremely dangerous to our democracy*