Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone?
Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry.
But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?
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People with iPhones use iMessage for texting which turns their bubbles blue (green for any other type of phone) and with iMessage there are a whole slew of features that people enjoy like chat bubbles to show active typing, read receipts, sending over Wi-Fi, etc. Often there's one member of a group chat with an Android who can't take advantage of those features and it limits the group chat features since they use SMS/MMS/RCS protocol instead. Here's an article about it:
https://www.androidauthority.com/green-bubble-phenomenon-1021350/
Android to Android uses RCS: feature rich
iPhone to iPhone uses iMessage: feature rich
Android to iPhone uses SMS or MMS: bland, boring, and unsecure
Why you ask, Apple won't let anyone else use the iMessage protocol and also won't add RCS to their phones so they just use a protocol from the 90s instead
Who uses SMS in this day and age? Have these people not heard of sending messages using the internet?
It's very common here in the states actually. Not really by choice though. Around the time many messaging apps were taking off iMessage kinda established itself as "the" way to do stuff like group chats. I hear in the rest of the world apps like Whatsapp are way more common but they're more of a niche thing here overall
That's so weird to hear, but I guess it makes sense. I think I've heard people say that across the pond you never really had to pay for texts? Internet-based messengers really took off on phones because you'd have to pay 10p per text back in the day!
Yeah back before most plans did "unlimited" data, many of the deals were for unlimited texts. I remember texts costing about that much at first then we moved my family to an unlimited texting plan and never thought much about it again
I think that was the case here too, but even with limited data you can send pictures, videos, and attachments as well as have group chats, whereas SMS never evolved beyond text (and MMS probably still costs 50p a message to this day!)
So basically the expected experience of literally any non sms/mms messaging protocol? But somehow designed to cause weird elitism? We had those features when we would hop onto whatever popular messenger on the pc after elementary school... or the coloured translucent all in one apple computer before it was cool to have apple products.