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?
I’ve had an iPhone for a long time and I’ve never got a person sending me a SMS. All I get are automatic messages about deliveries and stuff. I guess iMessage is more a thing in the USA?
Most of the world uses Android. The fetish for Apple is a pretty uniquely American thing.
Not only that. There are plenty of iphones, but America is the one that uses SMS. Most countries use other apps, such as WhatsApp, Telegram and maybe stuff like Facebook Messenger (I mostly use WhatsApp and Telegram). I’ve never texted anyone using SMS except just to see if it works lol. But people in America primarily use SMS.
American here, never used any of those apps. Only use iMessage. Don’t see a point in giving my information to another 3rd party. WhatsApp/FB Messenger are incredibly insecure (and meta reads your data and will provide it when subpoena’s), telegram is questionably so.
Plus nobody else over here uses them, so there’s no need.
and my generation (from early 90s at least) mostly use discord or whatsapp. not even imessage and thing.