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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by UncleOxidant on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:07PM (#33183211)
Yeah, I had to google it too:

"If you see a green message bubble instead of a blue one, then that message was sent using MMS/SMS instead of iMessage. There are several reasons for this: The person that you sent the message to doesn't have an Apple device. iMessage is turned off on your device or on your recipient's device."

So apparently iPhone users see text messages from us Android users in a green bubble instead of a blue one. And apparently they've been conditioned to think this is icky?

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by procinct on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:13PM (#33183335)
It more means the group chat will all switch to using SMS (to include the non iPhone user) which isn’t as feature rich as using iMessage. It’s not a judgement on someone for their phone, it’s more that including their phone makes the group chat function worse.
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by chadd on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:10PM (#33183278)
it's not color it's functionality. a single non-iOS user being added to the group breaks the group texting behavior for the entire group
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by wafriedemann on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:20PM (#33184407)
This sound horrible. What a bullying tactic from Apple.
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by colinmhayes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:45PM (#33184718)
SMS/MMS is icky. Absolutely shit protocol.
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by mewse on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:53PM (#33184808)
Your quoted source has that backward -- messages you've received always appear in light grey bubbles, regardless of whether they came in via SMS or iMessage.

It's only messages which you *sent* which appear in green or blue, to let you know whether each message was sent via SMS (which may have incurred a charge from your telco) or iMessage (which is free). At least to a casual glance, there's nothing on received messages to indicate whether they came in via SMS or iMessage.

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