The blue vs green bubble thing never really bothered me. As long as I can communicate with the person I'm talking to, I don't care how the messages are sent, unless maybe if I don't want a message to be sent over plain sms. It's ridiculous how it has become a status thing.
It is though. I'm the only developer in an agency of designers. Yes, they all have iphones and I'm the only Android lol
It's absurd, but i get the blue bubble looks of superiority all the time.
I'm the only developer in an agency of designers
In the US. Outside of the US no one uses iMessage, not even iPhone users.
I'm in Germany, at least my designer colleagues love iMessage, but not for work. Since we know each other for a long time, there's lots of semi private messaging going around.
Not only someone using iMessage but at the same time not using Signal or Whatsapp? Thats the first time I've heard of either of these two.
I hear this a lot, Iโve not known a single person who has considered it a status thing. There are people who have cheap phones from both apple and android and they were made fun of for the price of the phone, not the bubble color. iMessage just made it much nicer to talk to people. โI can send messages over wifi!โ made it so you could send messages in school or anywhere with a big metal roof. โThe images are better!โ These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around. Now? Yeah, thereโs other options, but back then iMessage made its hold by being able to be used by people who couldnโt use SMS or didnโt want to for whatever reason
That's because you're looking at it from an adults perspective, if you go into a HS you'll see it (Source, used to be a substitute in a past life) and there have even been some articles on it that the whole blue/green bubble thing is targeting by Apple towards teens in HS rather than adults.
Many people never mature past high school so I wouldn't be surprised to see this amongst older people.
โThe images are better!โ These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around.
Apple intentionally sets the MMS size limit extremely low, much lower than any other manufacturers or carriers.
This is done intentionally to make communications with non-apple devices a worse experience.
They weren't just "making the best of what they had"
They were/are actively making the non-proprietary experience worse.
On purpose
It's not just about the color of the bubble. If you go on an outing with a group of iPhone users, there's a high chance they'll create a group chat with and without you, because the group chat with you won't let them send HQ photos. Even if they aren't trying to be exclusionary, someone will inevitably forget to send messages to both group chats. iMessage incentivizes situations like this which socially punishes Android users.
The blue vs green bubble thing never really bothered me. As long as I can communicate with the person I'm talking to, I don't care how the messages are sent, unless maybe if I don't want a message to be sent over plain sms. It's ridiculous how it has become a status thing.
It is though. I'm the only developer in an agency of designers. Yes, they all have iphones and I'm the only Android lol
It's absurd, but i get the blue bubble looks of superiority all the time.
In the US. Outside of the US no one uses iMessage, not even iPhone users.
I'm in Germany, at least my designer colleagues love iMessage, but not for work. Since we know each other for a long time, there's lots of semi private messaging going around.
Not only someone using iMessage but at the same time not using Signal or Whatsapp? Thats the first time I've heard of either of these two.
So they use iPhones, but you're the only one who Thinks different โข ๐
I knew it lol
I hear this a lot, Iโve not known a single person who has considered it a status thing. There are people who have cheap phones from both apple and android and they were made fun of for the price of the phone, not the bubble color. iMessage just made it much nicer to talk to people. โI can send messages over wifi!โ made it so you could send messages in school or anywhere with a big metal roof. โThe images are better!โ These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around. Now? Yeah, thereโs other options, but back then iMessage made its hold by being able to be used by people who couldnโt use SMS or didnโt want to for whatever reason
That's because you're looking at it from an adults perspective, if you go into a HS you'll see it (Source, used to be a substitute in a past life) and there have even been some articles on it that the whole blue/green bubble thing is targeting by Apple towards teens in HS rather than adults.
Many people never mature past high school so I wouldn't be surprised to see this amongst older people.
Apple intentionally sets the MMS size limit extremely low, much lower than any other manufacturers or carriers.
This is done intentionally to make communications with non-apple devices a worse experience.
They weren't just "making the best of what they had"
They were/are actively making the non-proprietary experience worse.
On purpose
It's not just about the color of the bubble. If you go on an outing with a group of iPhone users, there's a high chance they'll create a group chat with and without you, because the group chat with you won't let them send HQ photos. Even if they aren't trying to be exclusionary, someone will inevitably forget to send messages to both group chats. iMessage incentivizes situations like this which socially punishes Android users.