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Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple's Blue Text Bubbles (gizmodo.com)

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Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple's Blue Text Bubbles::Yes, even Google appears to be tired of green texts on the iMessage app.

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to click another link within that article to understand what the hell a green bubble is. Apparently messages from people with Android phones are green in iMessage, whereas messages from other iMessage users are blue. And this is something people care about to the point that kids are bullied over it. How pathetic are people? Humanity was a mistake. Lol.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

Not really the case.

Green in iOS messaging means it’s an SMS or an MMS. Technically iPhones send them as well, even when communicating with other iPhones, if there is a problem sending the iMessage version.

The issue isn’t really that the color is different, it’s the handling of the messages. Apple is pretty explicit in their divide. They either send iMessages, or bog standard SMS/MMS. They intentionally don’t play nice with RCS.

This causes a lot of headache between iPhone and android users. Any piece of information you want to send that isn’t pure text or a format/size supported by MMS, just isn’t possible. Things like stickers, replies, or reactions all get “lost in translation” as they either aren’t possible, or get a text version “KairuByte reacted with a heart.”

Apple made this choice as an attempt to force people to choose between the two ecosystems. And its pretty shitty.