Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
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Published 2022-01-24
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The Ecosystem: Explained • The 🍎 Ecosystem: Explained!
Horror stories with blue vs green bubbles: www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winnin…
Explaining Google's involvement with RCS: www.androidpolice.com/googles-rcs-drama-with-apple…
Most popular messaging apps: www.statista.com/statistics/258749/most-popular-gl…
Apple's emails about iMessage lock-in: www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-…
Apple violating their own guidelines with green bubbles: medium.com/@_sdc/how-apple-taught-its-users-to-hat…
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All Comments (21)
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ive heard the "android users get less dates" thing before. trust me guys, if they dont like you because of your phone choice, you dodged a bullet.
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I love how Marques is actually aware of the international community and doesn’t just assume everyone is from America
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The saddest part is that young people are being cuffed into this apple ecosystem. The same young generation who's supposed to be tech savvy and extremely adaptable to change.
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Two years from now and Google announcing they've done everything they can to make RCS compatible iMessage. This video aged surprisingly well. I live in the US and I never heard about this whole green vs blue bubble thing until an iPhone user in a group chat was complaining to me. I was like, I can make the color whatever I want to in the theme settings.
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In Germany it is the opposite 😅 no one uses only iMessage. It's WhatsApp, Telegram and Wire/Threema/Signal for everything
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As an android user in the US, I've actually grown to appreciate the green bubbles thing a little bit. Maybe I'm just a contrarian, but I think that if someone doesn't want to be your friend because of your phone choice, then you really don't want them as a friend anyways. At this point it's just a filter for shallow people
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Phone Racism
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I consider the lack of read receipts and typing indicators to be a bonus. Nobody accuses me of leaving them on read, and I can't be expected to respond to texts instantly. HUGE benefit and I couldn't care less what color my bubbles are.
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As a middle school educator, I’ve heard quite a number of students make fun of kids that have an android phone because of the green bubble. They would say their phones are slow, ugly, or cheap. It really is a problem.
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the amount of times I have been told to "just get an iphone" in response to my texts showing up green on their phones or limiting their group chat functionalities is astonishing. It's so refreshing to read these comments and see that this isn't a worldwide thing
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I never really thought seriously about this until recently. I usually just use the default chat app. It was only until my younger sister told me she has an iphone because she felt pressured to do so. Seemed odd, but it was even stranger when i found out the pressures were tied to imessage and the green/blue bubbles. That her generation actually ostracizes anyone for being "green text". It was just so alien of a concept to me.
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As someone with no friends, I see this as an absolute win.
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Important to note, iMessage doesn’t turn the android user’s bubble green. It turns the iPhone user’s bubble green. Like it’s punishing you for having a friend that doesn’t use apple products.
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I just listened to 20 minutes about text messages, and never felt bored. Your video format and storytelling are top tier - Not to mention the production quality, which is off the charts!
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I particularly enjoyed the 'iPhones have better cameras than Android' pitch from my iPhone owning friends who tried to convince me to convert when I was clinging on to my Blackberry. I took their advice, and bought a Sony Xperia.
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Thank you for breaking this down so eloquently and articulately . As an elder millennial I was like ' wtf is even going on?!?' as if we don't already have enough legit conflicts, wars and battles going on in this world...
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I like how as soon as the RCS segment starts, the blue and green bubbles get removed from the background. That's a nice touch.
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The bubble thing is so weird to me as someone from Europe where literally everyone uses WhatsApp and it doesn't matter what phone you have. I think more people use Android here these days too.
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Imagine not using whatsapp
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Thank you. As someone from the Middle East and has seen different posts on Reddit regarding Android and iOS interactions, this video was very informative. You also pointed out a good observation which is that one company shouldn't have all the communication
