When two phones with iMessage enabled text each other, the texts are blue and the experience is better-- the texts are more responsive, have read receipts, high

When two phones with iMessage enabled text each other, the texts are blue and the experience is better-- the texts are more responsive, have read receipts, high quality videos/images, games, and more. However, when one of the users does not have iMessage (almost always the case when one person uses android), the text messages show up as green. Since these conversations cannot make use of the above features that you have with iMessage, and along with this, the texts have a green color to them. This has come to be known as "green bubble" problem. The problem is exacerbated in group texts. The iMessage features are available only when every single person in the group chat has iMessage. If someone doesn't, the entire group falls back to MMS which is a degraded experience from both the iPhone users' side, as well as the Android users' side. Teens can be fickle, and I've heard you get excluded from group chats-- hurting your social life when so much of it revolves around group chats. I think you see the point by now. I just held out again and purchased an Android Phone, but I could see myself breaking down and getting an iPhone for my next one. Most recent problem being that you can't send videos via MMS without them becoming heavily compressed, and have to switch to a third party app like Signal or WhatsApp.