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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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[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] Omen2819@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The only time it’s an issue for me is when the other person isn’t willing to message me on another app instead of trying to use SMS. I get horrible cell service where I live and my only options are iMessage or an app like Signal /WhatsApp/Messenger.

So this is when adding someone with an Android to a group conversation that was taking place using iMessage can cause some irritation.

[–] Litany@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This makes me legitimately curious. If you're having this limitation on iPhone, would you consider switching to Android, as the standard MMS protocol supported by Android (and every non Apple vendor) works on wifi/data just fine? iPhone not integrating iMessage with the MMS standard is what causes the issue here.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I mean this came up in a recent group chat we had where I asked who the green text user was. It's not that we didn't continue the text. It's that we have to realize that we are using plain text messages and that our iMessage features no longer work. If your friends don't text you because you have an android, they're not your friends.

[–] LemmyRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In Spain absolutely everyone use whatsapp as the standard. Then, in families usually people use meesages, telegram or whatever.

[–] Mando@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

iPhone user Most of the world uses Whatsapp, so this is a non issue for me

[–] ZestycloseReception8@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I live in the US and this was never a problem for me? If it is then these people aren't really your friends. Think of it as a litmus test for finding friends.

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[–] regeya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like a lot of iot tech is geared more towards iPhone in the US. For example my wife's Odyssey will read the entire header of a text message with text to speech, and if you look into it Honda says it's a known issue. No such issue with iPhones.

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