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.
Lol not true
this is definitely not true.
Android makes up over 70% of the global phone market, what’s not true?
From what I read it depends on country. Android may have 70% in aggregate but iOS can still dominate in individual countries - e.g. Japan, Denmark, Norway, …
It definitely is true.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-share-held-by-mobile-operating-systems-since-2009/
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…
I would never install any of the Meta shit apps no matter what. I quit FB in 2017 and never looked back
I’ve tried many times to convert my non-techy friends but it’s impossible.
It’s hard to argue with “literally everyone I know uses Messenger”.
Well i went the hard route of just uninstalling Whatsapp and FB, they know how to reach me and can call if need to be.
A big advantage is i can get excited when they show me their vacation pics again and its not the i have already seen those pics on insta/fb.
Its a bold move and you may feel a bit left out ( i felt like that) but over time you get used to it and it feels kinda relaxing
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?