Some Apple users regard this as a status symbol, some even excluding android users to avoid the green bubbles. This is probably because they perceive android as inferior since green text bubbles are associated with degraded performance largely imposed by apple when falling back to sms for interoperability (crappy pic quality, spammy notifications). Apple uses this to help keep iphone dominance (at least in the US).
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terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Why does this matter? As an android user, I don’t really understand iMessage. Are people mad about a text bubble being a different color?
hootmcgoot@lemm.ee 1 year ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This sounds like something made up. Even if it’s true, it’s so unimportant that doesn’t need to be legislated.
tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blue bubble in iMessage means the message is encrypted and fully functional. Green bubble means it’s not encrypted and some features (like sharing videos) wont work properly.
Apple has gained a lot of market share in recent years, and apparently it’s a thing to make fun of that one person in a group text who’s using an android and forcing all the bubbles to be green. Kinda silly, and I’m sure Google’s ultimate goal here is getting access to more user data (over any concerns about “openness” or bullying), but there you go.
Something_Complex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And here I come to say, what the fuck is Imessager
BT_7274@lemmy.world 1 year ago
iMessage is the iPhone’s default texting app. It comes preinstalled on all their phones.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
iMessage is the iPhones default messaging type. The app is called Messages. iMessages are what are sent over the Apple network.
800XL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, no kidding? Encrypted vs unencrypted too, or is that only it? I had no idea.
Totally agree that google just wants info tho.
tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
iMessage does end-to-end encryption by default, but only between iMessage clients (blue bubbles). I believe (someone correct if I’m wrong) that android’s basic messaging app does SMS by default, which does not support encryption. So iMessage can communicate with android phones, but only by falling back to basic unencrypted messaging, which it displays in a green bubble.
There are other proprietary iMessage features too, like animated messages, that don’t work for android at all. And I suppose to be fair to Apple users, it is kind of annoying having an android in a group chat because tagging a message (thumbs up or whatever) doesn’t actually tag it, it just sends a message that says says “so-and-so liked a message”. Not worth bullying someone over, but I get the irritation.
Dkiscoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Android does RCS and only falls back to SMS or MMS because that’s all Apple will let iMessage use. RCS is an open standard that supports end to end encryption, full video and image sharing, and everything else iMessage does. Android can even translate iMessage message tagging and display them properly, but apple purposefully makes the experience worse if messaging non apple devices.
800XL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 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.