I’d imagine not

I have an iPhone… For me if I see the green bubbles that means that the messages are SMS which is insecure and antiquated. I use iMessage and Signal because they are more secure and allow for sending rich media like photos and videos without worrying about MMS and SMS. I have massive amounts of data, why the heck would I use SMS to send messages? It has nothing to do with hating Android, it’s more to do with SMS being hot garbage.

To clarify, if you only have SMS, that’s fine I don’t care and it doesn’t affect our relationship, but given the choice I will always default to an end to end encrypted messengers.

I think this is mostly an issue in the US. The rest of the world uses a variety of messaging apps instead of text messaging. Here in South Africa WhatsApp and Telegram are prevalent.

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.

The heck are blue bubbles? Is this post about some fancy soap?

My best friend has an iPhone. I’m a Samsung girl. Any time her phone doesn’t let her do something I poke fun at the iPhone, but in reality they are just different versions of the same thing. The only real reason I have to complain is the price tag. I’m not paying double for an item that does the same thing as the cheaper version. That’s just stupid financially. It’s not a better product because it costs more. I can live without whatever it offers that android doesn’t.

Just use a service that works on both android and iOS such as Signal.

It is odd that someone would choose a friendship because of a phone.

Honestly, it’s kind of a nice filter to have an Android then, if that’s the case.

For a long while last year, I had an iPhone and my fiancé had a Pixel. It did not matter whatsoever in regards to the relationship. We used Telegram (still do).

If phone choice dictates someone’s choice in partner it is probably safe to categorize them as “terminally online.” Stay away from those people.

If you think you’re better than me because you have an iPhone and I run an Android, I don’t want to talk to you anyway.

People are so fucking petty and elitist over the dumbest fucking things.

I can’t stand iOS or any of Apples’ faux premium nonsense. Everything is clunky and unintuitive to me and I just want something that works without having to jump through hoops all the time. Android isn’t perfect but it’s a lot more functional

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

I guess it kinda is. Insofar that anyone who cares about vapid shit like that probably isn’t friend material.

But it also sounds like a thing I need to tell my kids to which they reply something like “dad, you don’t get it. You fucking boomer.”

I’ve never seen any blue or green bubbles. What messenger are you talking about? Will you really tell me there are actually people out there, using a basic built-in messenger … for 90’s SMS or MMS?

It’s actually the opposite for me. I don’t mind a fancy iphone, but that OS is so locked down I have to run the “same” apps on android to use them effectively for my work.

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.