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Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple's Blue Text Bubbles::Yes, even Google appears to be tired of green texts on the iMessage app.

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[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Why does this matter? As an android user, I don't really understand iMessage. Are people mad about a text bubble being a different color?

[–] hootmcgoot@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some Apple users regard this as a status symbol, some even excluding android users to avoid the green bubbles. This is probably because they perceive android as inferior since green text bubbles are associated with degraded performance largely imposed by apple when falling back to sms for interoperability (crappy pic quality, spammy notifications). Apple uses this to help keep iphone dominance (at least in the US).

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