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?

  • @vzqEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I was about to say. Over here 90% of text communications are over WhatsApp. That’s a huge problem for a variety of reasons, but everyone is green bubble.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      It’s weird to say but I’d much rather us keep doing this stupid SMS thing before jumping into bed with anything Meta.

      Now matrix or signal or something? Sign me up.

      • @NecromnomiconEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        In the US SMS is still the standard, it’s infuriating. Phones are starting to switch to RCS. I’ve tried a bunch of times to convert my core group of friends to Signal and it’s like talking to a brick wall.

          • @WhoRogerEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Sms group chats just sends an mms.

        • @improvisedbuttplugEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I mean considering that iPhones have ~50% market share in the US. You can just as much say iMessage is the standard.

          Factor in the other messenger services and SMS is probably a pretty small slice of the current text messaging landscape