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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Daily Money: Does Apple's iMessage benefit from bullying?

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Tuesday, January 11

Hello, Daily Money readers. Jayme Deerwester back with you on this arctic Tuesday morning.

Any time you enter a text messaging thread on iPhone, those blue and green message bubbles make clear who is on iPhone versus Android . Google claims that distinction leads to "peer pressure and bullying" that has ultimately given Apple's iMessage a clear edge. Apple's efforts to lock in users to iMessage "is a documented strategy," argues Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president of Google products including Android. He adds, "The standards exist today to fix this."

On to today's ...

💡DAILY INSIGHT. 💡Are you looking for a new job opportunity or career change? U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its 2022 ranking of the best jobs . Your safest bet? Information security analyst. The role is "increasingly critical as organizations work to protect against data breaches and cyber attacks," explains consumer advice senior editor Antonio Barbera. "Low unemployment and a high median salary make this career sector appealing as well."

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🎶 MOOD MUSIC. 🎶In honor of the Georgia Bulldogs' national football championship, it's only appropriate to use an Athens, Georgia, band today. So I'm going with the B-52s' "Love Shack" : "Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin', baby. Folks linin' up outside just to get down." (Little bit of trivia for you: one of the dancers making the whole shack shimmy in that video was an early-career RuPaul.)