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?
If you think you’re better than me because you have an iPhone and I run an Android, I don’t want to talk to you anyway.
People are so fucking petty and elitist over the dumbest fucking things.
If you live anywhere outside of the US, the question is irrelevant, because everyone uses whatsapp etc.
Within the US, if you are over the age of 30, it probably doesn’t matter.
if you are under the age of 30 AND in the US, I mean, if someone does judge you for it, you at least have a great way to filter shitty people out of your life lol.
I’m over 30 (in the US) and have an iPhone, but before I got my current job I was almost never reachable by phone, either out of service range or phone was dead, so I give out my google number so that messages and calls go to my email and get forwarded to my phone. So I make green bubbles from my iPhone.
When people see me pull out my phone for the first time they get SO MAD. “WHY ARE YOUR BUBBLES GREEN?! YOU HAVE AN iPHONE!!” I don’t understand. I know I could reverse things so that my cell number forwards to my google number instead of the other way around, but it’s just not something I’ve ever gotten around to. Why you so mad bruh?
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So what do you answer when they react like that? What is their explanation? What is the problem exactly?
I’ve heard a 38 year old American man on a podcast moan about his families bubbles when they use android.
And developing countries are dominated by Chinese Android OEMs, with Samsung unable to beat them on the mid-range segment.
Let me guess, you are from the United States? Every time I heard about this is only from the US, never see anyone outside giving a single fuck about that.
Also, do you really wanna be friend with someone that choose friendship by the phone their friend uses? WtfIf they don’t want to text you because you don’t have an iPhone they’re not friends you want to have.
Are you from the US? In Germany we use WhatsApp Threema or Telegram for messaging, nobody cares about some bubble colour.
My best friend has an iPhone. I’m a Samsung girl. Any time her phone doesn’t let her do something I poke fun at the iPhone, but in reality they are just different versions of the same thing. The only real reason I have to complain is the price tag. I’m not paying double for an item that does the same thing as the cheaper version. That’s just stupid financially. It’s not a better product because it costs more. I can live without whatever it offers that android doesn’t.
so the whole world uses mostly whatsapp or some other messaging app. nobody not in the US gives a damn about the color of the bubble or even knows whats the device on the other side. we all use whatsapp its much better in any way possible (except that it belongs to facebook, that is bad… anyway we were there before it belonged to facebook, so…)
It is odd that someone would choose a friendship because of a phone.
Honestly, it’s kind of a nice filter to have an Android then, if that’s the case.
Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?
I guess it kinda is. Insofar that anyone who cares about vapid shit like that probably isn’t friend material.
But it also sounds like a thing I need to tell my kids to which they reply something like “dad, you don’t get it. You fucking boomer.”
It’s bewildering to me how this continues to be an issue only in the US, the rest of the world figured out this problem around 2010, and I’m not kidding. It’s like you guys are still arguing about Beta vs VHS in 2023
It’s so exclusive to the US that I didn’t even understand what OP was saying before reading the comment section for clues.
Blue bubbles, green bubbles? Wtf is that and how is it related to Android/iOS.
For reference, I live in South East Asia and use Android, but I have never heard my friends using iOS complain about some kinda bubble colour.
I live in the US and I had no idea what the OP was talking about. I am in the same boat as you with the blue vs green bubbles thing (but now I know thanks to the comments) and am also an android user. I was today years old when I found out I apparently send green bubbles to iPhones.
Why are you guys texting? Don’t you have WhatsApp or Telegram?
I haven’t sent an SMS since 2012. What is going on in the US?
I think US carriers moved primarily to “unlimited text” before smart phones were the standard. It’s just momentum and many people to l don’t have any reason to switch.
Oh, I see. Yeha, sending SMS here was expensive when WhatsApp showed up.
Well, there are many who use whatsapp here. But it’s definitely not universal.
Don’t you guys get like an incredible amount of spam via SMS? It became kinda like email but worse.
I can’t block the short numbers companies use to send SMS because they are usually using a third party SMS service. So, different companies can send messages that arrive with the same number. If I block an SMS ad, I might be also blocking an important SMS alert from my bank warning some security issue.
really spam texts i don’t remember getting many of those. i do get auto text for things like deliveries and check deposits but not spam
Can you ELI5? I’m reading the comments and still not comprehending what’s going on here.
I think the SMS app on iPhone marks messages sent from an iPhone as blue, and the rest are marked as green.
OP is saying that their iPhone-using friends judge people by the colour of messages. Which is idiotic and completely unheard of over here in my country.
European here. I only know about this from a video I saw some time ago. Android user, obviously
It’s also somewhat a thing in Canada but we’re just US-Lite
I don’t know what you mean by blue or green bubbles (I use Android, Chomp for SMS, Discord to IM, WhatsApp for the stragglers) but I’ve never met anybody so shallow that they’d give up a friendship over what brand of phone you use. That’s the kinda thing a very childish 13 year old might do.
I think you might need to re-evaluate who you think your friends are, if they’d rather cut off contact with you than receive a slightly different looking text message. That’s incredibly, INCREDIBLY weird.
Iphone to iphone sms messages actually use some special apple thing (iMessage) and show up blue. Actual sms like to Android show up green
Wow, now that’s a deal breaker. I guess I’ll have to buy the iPhone I don’t even care about now.
Yes the only reason I know it’s because I’ve had to explain it to confused iphone users at work who get all precious when a message is a green. I normally run Android but my work phone is an iPhone (because it’s helpful to know them when you have to support them) and I just disable iMessage.
In US it’s stupid trench warfare of blue vs green message. As an Android user I have had to explain MULTIPLE TIMES that this is not about Android’s lack of capabilities but rather the unwillingness of Apple to use RSC. Almost always my explanation falls on deaf ears.
Only the most superficial of people would use this reason as a method for diminishing or isolating someone.
I would question my relationship with them if this is their outlook.
I think this must be a cultural thing because no one in the UK sends SMS messages. Everyone just uses WhatsApp or signal or telegram. I’m android and have literally never had anyone mention the colour of my bubble. I didn’t know this was a thing!
Yes, but it’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s a super low investment and quick way to identify people you should avoid.
