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?
It’s a US thing. It took european carriers a very long time to offer unlimited texts (especially across borders) which in turn helped apps like Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram. iPhones display messages/SMS from non-iPhones in green bubbles. Pictures sent from non-iPhones are displayed in lower resolutions because Apple doesn’t support some standard or smth.
The standard is RCS
Googles standard is RCS, just like Apples is iMessage. Apple is never going to implement a competitors standard. And despite being open, not even all of android has adopted this standard. Only a couple apps have.
The first time my wife saw a picture taken by my phone, on my phone, she was blown away. She thought all android cameras suck because that’s what Apple wants them to believe. Her mind was blown that I actually had a way better phone camera than her.
It quickly became, “let me borrow your phone for this picture, then you can upload it for me.” Yet she still refused to leave apple
And then you sent it to her over imessage, it comes through in 120*160 pixels and that’s how she thinks Android phones take pictures?
Can I ask what phone you have? Is it a pixel? I used to have a pixel and switched to Samsung and miss the picture quality.
This was years ago when I got my samsaung galaxy s10+ brand new
Iphone intentionally lowers the resolution of non apple messages.
Actually that not true. It just the image/video is sent over MMS which is a standard from 2002 and is limited to 2Mbs in size and 99% of photos taken now adays I such larger then that so MMS compresses it before its sent.
Apple has had 5 years to implement the higher resolution image standard. They are intentionally not.
In our country sms were free in the first few years of early 2000s, then the telcos learned. And now its paid per message.
Though nobody uses sms anymore, since FB is free and so is messenger, even if you don’t have data available.
Zuck struck gold here.