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?
The problem is that most americans don’t use SMS as their main messaging system, they use iMessage, which is an IM app so long as it’s between iPhone’s. So when android users complain about apple not using RCS, what they’re really complaining about is that they can’t use the IM app that everyone else settled on.
Like, imaging living in the UK, but you have a phone that couldn’t use WhatsApp at all. I’m sure that people would be telling you to download whatsApp instead of messaging them on SMS, but you literally couldn’t without buying a new phone