I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

  • N3Cr0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never seen any blue or green bubbles. What messenger are you talking about? Will you really tell me there are actually people out there, using a basic built-in messenger … for 90’s SMS or MMS?

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      1 year ago

      The problem is that in the Apple cosmos the messaging app doesn’t use SMS or MMS, so people use it to communicate quite a lot. Once you use it to message someone on Android though it reverts back to SMS/MMS. Same is true for group chats. 5 apple users are fine, but if you add a sixth person that uses Android the whole chat group goes back to the 90s. Including super pixelated images etc.

      It’s a stupid system designed to keep people in the Apple sphere.

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      1 year ago

      The message app on iPhones. Yes, the built-in Apple apps on iOS are generally pretty good and people use them.