Yes, I’m the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I’m sorry.

But other than that, I don’t hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

    • carushli@vlemmy.net
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      It’s a very US thing since they’re still texting normally and in iMessage, normal SMS show up as green bubbles instead of blue.

      In the rest of the world, messaging apps like WhatsApp are more popular which doesn’t have this.

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        I’m in the US and rarely use regular text. I’m mostly texting through Facebook messenger actually although I don’t really use Facebook itself. Just most of my friends use that method to send messages.

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      To elaborate, blue bubbles indicate that the message is being sent via iMessage, whereas green is SMS/MMS. iMessage is basically all the promises of RCS, realized. In the case of group messages, if just one person in the group is not on iPhone, the entire group has to fall back to SMS. The iPhone users get annoyed because they lose all the nifty messaging features that they’ve become accustomed to.

      There are two obvious solutions here: Apple could embrace RCS, or Apple could open up iMessage to Android. So obviously this problem will never be solved.