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?

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    1 year ago

    Are you from the US? In Germany we use WhatsApp Threema or Telegram for messaging, nobody cares about some bubble colour.

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      As an American, what even is this bubble? Is OP talking about the color of that speech box thing? It doesn’t matter to me, I use both whatsapp AND my iphone’s built-in texting app (but mostly the latter for messaging my fellow Americans, as adding them to iphone contacts that are shared with any email addresses if known is more convenient and iphone texts seem to be messed up when you try to send them to international numbers)

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        If you use iMessage on an iPhone, other messages from iMessage come in with a different bubble color than texts/SMS/MMS that don’t come from iMessage. That’s anything from a non-Apple device.

        Why anyone cares, though, is all elitist nonsense. 🤷‍♂️

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          I care not because of elitism but because videos sent via MMS from android to iphone are postage stamp quality, texts sent from iphone to android frequently contain emojis that the android user can’t see because androids have like two or three places you need to go to update the core functionality of the phone, and half the android userbase only knows about one of those places. It’s a severely impaired experience, and it’s apple’s fault (I have an iphone). My girlfriend is on Android and for any kind of multimedia beyond simple pictures, we switch over to meta Messenger (she picked the app, I hate all things meta).

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          Typical Apple, making its users feel superior to everyone else just because they prefer a little more privacy

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      yeah in America people just use plan text all the time. apps like WhatsApp never caught on here

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      My impression is that most Americans are happy with default phone text messaging apps, even though rich messaging features between iphone and android don’t work properly (because Apple makes good products but also blows goats). The first thing I think about Telegram is Denis Davidoff, the Ukrainian youtuber, and the second thing I think about Telegram is that it is what US extremists used to coordinate the January 6th insurrection on the US capitol.