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?
The most notable explanation I can point to is that Apple’s iMessage, below the hood, functions a lot like WhatsApp or Signal, being an IP Texting/instant messaging service, and offering various advanced features that regular SMS and MMS do not support. To some this is important, and they may think less of Android users as a result of this.
It als does not help that for one, Apple does not want to publish iMessage to the Google Play store, and for two, that there is no general advanced messaging standard in widespread use, that is being enforced as the mandatory standard unless absolutely not available at both ends by phone carriers and/or governments. If there was, the technical side of this would not be a problem.
I don’t care much about iMessage. All the people I know who are not an iPhone users use facebook messenger and cry about how bad quality sending pictures and videos are. But do nothing to change that. Thats the problem. I was going though hell to convince my girlfriend to use Signal to chat with me. Because she is an Android user. I hate FB, Insta, WhatsApp and all that stuff.
For me, I’m technologically inclined and like to be helpful. As such, I would not date an iphone user as I do not know how to fix their phones, and that would make me feel sad that I couldn’t help. Also, as an iphone user, it seems like they’d rather just buy a new stupidly phone than take the time to figure out how their device actually works, and that massively clashes with how I view things.
For stupid or vain people, maybe. And only in countries where people send SMS anyway.
I haven’t used SMS actively ever, because as soon as smartphones got popular, everyone moved to Facebook, and then later I got my friends to move to Telegram if they wanted to keep talking to me.
Yes, but it’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s a super low investment and quick way to identify people you should avoid.
This is 100% real for young people. It’s sad and stupid. At least they can easily figure out who will be a crappy friend.
This is some sort of childish tech-classist B.S. Like you wouldn’t talk to a friend because of the shoes they wore or the car they drove. Who cares about people like that?
It’s not a tech-classist thing, it’s a human thing. At our core, we are tribal. We take sides. Android vs. iPhone. Windows vs. Mac. Linux vs. everyone. Sports team A vs. Sports team B. Republican vs. Democrat. Musk vs. Zuck. Cats vs. Dogs. Everything. We take sides on everything.
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For me it is. If the girl is using an Apple phone, it just lets me know she cares not for her privacy at all
My family uses Whatsapp and my work department uses GroupMe. On group chats, the messages were sometimes getting stuck on sms.
Only the most superficial of people would use this reason as a method for diminishing or isolating someone.
I would question my relationship with them if this is their outlook.
Don’t care about bubble colours, tbf I can probably change that with Android… user modification like this is one of the reasons I prefer it.
With iPhone, once you have one Apple device, your entire device ecosystem has to be a part of the same walled garden… or they don’t play nice with each other. Also, imo while Apple devices are often good quality, they massively overcharge for it (considering the cost to assemble and produce the hardware).
Clearly people with iPhones around me feel like they are a tad bit more superior. But everyone is just using WhatsApp, even between iPhone users, so it cancels out.
Dude… let it go. Seriously. You’re clearly trying to drum up some drama. It doesn’t matter what people use. It doesn’t effect you at all. They will use what they want, and you will use what you want.
And I’ve read that post. You’re fishing from conflict there as well, but most of the responses were well thought out reasons for using the product- you just didn’t like/agree with them. So now you’re here trying again.
If you have such a hate-boner for apple, don’t use apple.
Deal with it.
This is mainly an issue in countries that still use SMS as main IM platform.
In most countries (where mobile internet coverage is good) the main IM and VoIP platform is an app like WhatsApp and similars.
(The only thing I hate from WhatsApp is that is from Meta and as any Meta app it abuses background usage. I’d replace it with another app but all my friends, colleagues, even shops use it)
Not to mention that any problems caused by green bubble lack of compatibility are Apple’s fault, not Android’s.
