I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.
In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.
Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?
I think it’s mostly an US thing. The rest of the world has moved away from SMS.
It’s mostly a US thing because Android is the standard pretty much everywhere except the US.
American Android users are part of the problem, because they refuse to use messenger apps and cling onto SMS as well
that’s because other countries have affordable data & available wifi…
iMessage also runs on data/wifi. So I don’t think, this is really about affordable data and more just stubborness from the Android side.
I use SMS in Denmark with people I don’t know personally. Apps like Telegram or WhatsApp aren’t common here (yet) unfortunately.
Everyone has Facebook and uses Messenger. The absolute worst of all the choices…
US haven’t moved away from Imperial either 😂
Americans please
SMS is also basically free in several places, so there’s that.
also the case here. but why bother with old crappy sms wen you got 3g,4g and 5g?