What it’s essential to know
- Toronto rapper Drake simply launched his new album, “For All of the Canine,” on Friday.
- The album incorporates a track referred to as “First Individual Shooter” that makes a remark about receiving a textual content from an Android cellphone.
- This is not Drake’s first time referencing inexperienced bubble texts, and Google has even tried to make use of a earlier observe to its benefit.
For those who’re remotely a fan of the rapper Drake (for the report, I am not), then you have to be conscious that he dropped a brand new studio album on Friday referred to as “For All of the Canine.” Be at liberty to go stream in your favourite music streaming service if you have not heard it but, however once you get to the track “First Individual Shooter” that includes J. Cole, you could catch that Drake throws a point out at Android and inexperienced bubble texts.
The reference comes up simply previous the midway level of the track after issues change up. He raps about not answering somebody’s name earlier than mentioning that “she bought a Android, her messages is lime inexperienced.”
I’ve so many questions right here. Why is not he answering her name? Is it as a result of she makes use of Android? Does Drake have one thing in opposition to Android, or simply the colour lime inexperienced? Why does my editor-in-chief even take heed to Drake? Is it as a result of she’s primarily based in Toronto, the place he is from? Is that why she virtually begged me to write down this text? So many questions… however I digress.
Anyway, this is not the primary time Drake has introduced up inexperienced bubbles. In final yr’s “Actually, Nevermind” album, he has a track actually referred to as “Texts Go Inexperienced,” a title that references what occurs when an iPhone consumer will get blocked on iMessage and their texts begin showing inexperienced as a substitute of blue. Coincidentally, that is the identical coloration that seems when an iPhone consumer texts an Android consumer. Is not it attention-grabbing that these two circumstances are associated that method? Not likely, however I just like the drama of all of it.
Google apparently discovered that attention-grabbing as a result of it used the second to spotlight the track and the truth that Apple has but to undertake RCS, which it says can alleviate the numerous points customers have when texting Android telephones, like low-quality media, the shortage of safety when sending texts by way of the getting older SMS customary. It is one in every of many occasions Google has tried to publicly berate Apple’s choice to maintain iMessage to itself and never undertake RCS.
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Regardless of Google’s continued makes an attempt, Apple will not budge on the matter. And except the EU steps in, we could have many extra years of Apple ignoring Google’s pleas and Drake calling out folks for texting him from Android telephones.