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>iMessage. Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. Teens may feel more "cool" and "in" to use the same type of device, and iMessage also cements tha
by Zircom 5y ago
>iMessage. Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. Teens may feel more "cool" and "in" to use the same type of device, and iMessage also cements that.
My girlfriend is 21 and often
doesn't add me to groupchats when we're organizing stuff with friends solely because the messages will be green instead of blue.
- mishftw 5y agoIt's the network effect. I suffer from this too. If only Apple would adopt RCS but they won't because they like their walled garden.
- MBCook 5y agoIgnoring some things I would consider flaws (lack of end-to-end encryption right now), from what I’ve read it sounds like the rollout of RCS has been something between a mess and a disaster if your friends are on another carrier. It sounded like it got to the point where phone companies were delaying so long (at least in the US) that Google is basically forcing their hand by doing everything themselves if the carriers don’t. Meanwhile iMessage has been running for 10 years. That said I agree with you that I see basically no reason for Apple to add it. That’s up there with iMessage for Android in probability.
- dwaite 5y agoI could see Apple adding iMessage support to more platforms if they can use it to tie into service offerings. However, I doubt people on other platforms would really appreciate it, because the level of integration won't be there.
- mattl 5y agoYou should get an iPhone and stop being left out.
- recursive 5y agoI wouldn't want to pay money to the party that created the problem in the first place.
- zarzavat 5y agoDon’t have to. Just buy second hand.
- behnamoh 5y agoOr find another girlfriend..
- smabie 5y agoBuying an iPhone sounds easier. But agree not exactly a good sign if they care about messages being green. That being said, I've had multiple tinder dates mention they don't go out with guys that have green messages since it's an indication that they are poor.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoThat filter works both ways. Who wants someone that shallow?
- kennethh 5y agoI think the status thing with IPhone is a big thing. The extend and embrace with IPhone and iMessage and SMS is almost like Microsoft did it. Wonder why Android not did the same thing?
- Zak 5y agoGoogle made Hangouts the default SMS client for several years and there were obvious benefits to sending Hangouts rather than SMS messages with it. Few people did.
- blub 5y ago
- ycIsGarbage 5y agoIt’s not because of the color. It’s because group SMS sucks. Messages arrive late, out of order, or not at all.
- catillac 5y agoI would assume given their close relationship the significant other likely told them directly why?
- esrauch 5y agoI think the point is that people either consciously or subconsciously know that green bubble conversations are genuinely worse, not that people literally like the color blue better.
- School-Cotton 5y agoYeah, exactly. When I see a green bubble from someone I almost have an aversion to texting them because I know there will be a bunch of papercuts making the experience shittier.
- CameronNemo 5y agoSMS is indeed trash. Unfortunately nobody seems willing to go out of their way to accommodate the minority of android users in their friend group. My techy friends use Signal, but efforts to get people to join me there have been quite fruitless. My sister joined matrix, but she didn't remember her password the next time I tried to reach her there.
- MBCook 5y agoI don’t know what things are like in Android land, but if 95% of your messaging is in one app it feels like a real hassle to adopt another app for just one person/group. Would you start using a second podcast app just to listen to one individual podcast? Or would you just go without? I’ve always assumed Android users are used to multiple messaging apps already. Is that the case?
- fignews 5y agoAn iMessage group chat‘s nicer and more advanced features break when an sms user is added to the group.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoThat's actually hilarious :)