> Apple definitely picks an ugly color to make you feel uncomfortable texting with a non iPhone user. But what's Apple's motivation? Making me feel uncomfortab

> Apple definitely picks an ugly color to make you feel uncomfortable texting with a non iPhone user. But what's Apple's motivation? Making me feel uncomfortable reading an Android user's messages does little to influence that Android user into buying an iPhone. That said, I don't know why Apple thinks the transport protocol (iMessage vs SMS) is so important that users want to see a color indicator for every message.