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Re:Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone by doctoboggan on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @11:36AM (#40659289)
Before iMessage, they used the green bubbles for SMS. So unless Apple was planning a long con, they believed the green bubbles were fine for their customers for years, and switched to a new color (blue) when iMessage came about.
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Re:Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone by wrs on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:16PM (#40659790)
What I find ironic with all this talk of lower-class green bubbles is that the Messages app icon is still…green!
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Re:Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone by hnrodey on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @11:39AM (#40659332)
Back in my day..... all message bubbles were green!
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Re:Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @11:56AM (#40659547)
They used to do black text on green[1], which was fine, but they switched to white text on green/blue.

[1]: https://mobiforge.com/files/iphone-sms-1.jpg

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Re:Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone by tr3ntg on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:15PM (#40659774)
For some reason reading this, I didn't believe you, and imagined "black text on green bg" to be very ugly, but you're totally right. There's the classic look we remember. Hmm.
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