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?
blue/green bubbles
Whenever I bring those up as an example of a platform (Apple) intentionally leading their users to blame other users for their failings as a brand-bolstering move, I get a swarm of people assuring me it’s a myth.
I know it isn’t. I see it in the wild, both irl and online, like in this thread.
I find it easier to convince Apple users to use another app like Signal to group chat with Android users instead if they really don’t want the green bubble.
Alternatively, you can get a secondary iPhone just to use iMessage, but carrying 2 phones does get annoying.
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I have an iPhone and I would happily make the change to Android. They’re both great right now. Just be sure to pick a good Android phone. I believe that’s the problem to so much people.
I use the apps bluebubbles and airmessage on android to send imessages via a mac mini I have.
I have apple products, including an iPhone. I was a lifelong android user who switched recently due to just wanting a phone that works. I always had issues with getting mobile hotspots to work and other small issues with android. With my iPhone things just work. I agree that the locked in environment is a bit restrictive but I’m willing to accept that for the peace of mind having it all set up brings.
I don’t text, so the iMessage blue bubble thing is really not a deal for me. It just worked out right for me to go apple and I haven’t really regretted it.
I honestly get it. Apple has been excruciatingly stubborn to adopt RCS.
But they won’t. Because they want users to be pissed off enough to get an iPhone.
That being said, I don’t think it’s worth hating iOS over. Or vise versa, iOS users just being petty and not texting you because you have an Android. Kinda off topic but the internet loves to shit on Apple…
Meanwhile I’m over here with a Galaxy S20, iPhone 11 Pro, MacBook Pro, and a mid range Dell laptop running Windows 10.
Also incredibly off topic, but IMO both Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro are superior to anything you can find on Windows. FL Studio comes close though. I hear Abelton Live is good too.
I’m just saying both platforms do the same things very well, and both platforms do some things better than eachother. Troubleshooting on Mac is a breeze whereas on Windows it’s god awful. The UI on macOS is so much more consistent than Windows.
Windows has better platform support and doesn’t depreciate APIs nearly as much as macOS. (Then again, DirectX 12 dropped support for Windows 7…WHY).
The file explorer on Windows, while not as pretty, gives you much more control over the Finder in macOS. Windows gives you better user control over Disk Management too IMO. And of course, Windows is better for gaming. That might change over the next 5 years though which I am very happy about.
Also, the Control Panel is fucking awesome and I have no idea why Microsoft continues to try and depreciate it for the trashy Settings app. It has everything you need.
Bit of a rant there.
Which country are we talking about?
I barely know people using iOS, much less being elitist about it.
I have friends who, against better counsel, have android phones, and the group texts were forever breaking. I finally brokered a deal for us to use Signal, which has been great. So (1) Android users in a group text on iPhone is a super pain in the ass, and (2) If everyone’s using Signal, it’s cool.
I’m very confused about the ‘better counsel’ part. Do you actually believe that iphones are a better phone?
Yeah, what are they actually getting that’s arguably better to justify switching your entire ecosystem over for? Android and iOS have close enough feature parity that it’s really up to use choice at this point
Conspicuous consumerism. Having an iPhone makes people think they have status.
What is the downside of group mms aside from blueness?
I can’t think of anything, I just recently finished my 2 year stint with an iphone and never saw issues with groups no matter which phone they had.
Against better counsel huh? You know apple is the sole reason your group chats can’t work without a third party app yeah?
It’s because of you have a green bubble, none of the iMessage features will work, so it’s better to use another, more feature rich platform to communicate.
I get that some teenagers or whatever make a big deal out of it but that’s all it is really. I have an iPhone and I use discord to talk to my friends who have Android phones. It’s never been a problem.
It’s more like a litmus test, imo.
Several teenagers-in-adult-bodies use the incredibly minor inconvenience of green bubbles as class posturing - which is the kind of mindset that I will go out of my way to avoid.
Or, for a small sum, you can either strengthen or wholly dissolve your relationship. A net win either way.
Yeah, some people never grow out of high school.
I wish those people understood the full history of Apple making every effort of creating this problem on purpose to create this effect. They’ve done everything in their power to stop any standard being introduced between the OSes and to introduce features that create this “iPhone vs others” clique bullshit.
Yet these kids and even adults act like it’s an android problem. I hate how corporations always win like this, they know exactly how to manipulate people and it works.
Embrace, extend, extinguish in action all over again.
What pisses me off the most about apple is their “hey look at this new feature” shtick, bitch please, we’ve had XYZ feature for years.
Yeah, it sucks. I wish there was a third (viable) option, because the only reason I have an iPhone is that my only other option is Android, and I fucking hate Google. I know there are de-googlified versions of Android but I’m really not comfortable doing that (not because I don’t trust them but because I don’t trust myself not to completely fuck it up and brick my phone). I fear there will never be another option though.
HarmonyOS.
HarmonyOS.
That’s android.
No it isn’t. It can run Android as a task, though. Kind of like how Windows 10 and 11 can run Linux as a task. Or Linux can run Windows as a task. Or …
I just like how clean an iPhone feels to use. And the ecosystem. And AirDrop. I really dont care about the bubbles and dont know anyone who does
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I can see why people would be annoyed. Y family is heavily invested in the Apple/iCloud side of things. And having all our phones work together in the same environment is so much less of a headache vs. a mix of apple, android.
Deal breaker, not at all. Though, back when I had an iPhone I knew immediately I’d have to have another “Which of the five messaging apps will I need to preen through” conversations, since iPhone users in the US fall back on iMessage mostly.
Now, on the flip-side, what was extremely annoying about using the fruit device was assumptions others made about me in techie circles. Some of which appeared within these responses. That I was tech illiterate, vain, or a fan-boy of some sort. It simply did what I needed while carrying wonderful resale value and support times.
I use Android with Snapdragon processors to be able to unlock bootloader and flash a custom ROM. This allows me to get Google goodies, even those which current Pixels and any other device, be it an Android or an iPhone, lack. For example: Unlimited original quality photo and video uploads to Google Photos. Regarding your bubble situation, as others have already chimed in, non-US peeps just don’t care about it.
