In chat on the iphone, ios users see fellow ios users with blue bubbles, but see android peasants with green bubble. There's social pressure to "be blue like everyone else" and the author caved in.

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lynndotpy 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The social pressure is also technological. RCS integration was a big improvement but it's still not up to par.

It's not "ha, greens are poor", it's "android arnold can't be in the group chat because it'll fuck it all up"

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TheDong 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The tiny company behind Signal, and a bunch of even smaller companies making messengers, manage to make their app work just fine on iOS and android (and most of them on desktop too, some even in the browser).

For some reason, the (second) richest company on the planet, which has a messenger app, is incapable of making an android app for their messenger and chat protocol.

There's a technological issue, and it's nothing to do with RCS or SMS, it's that iMessage for some reason doesn't have an android version.

	▲	lynndotpy 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		To be clear, I'm not saying it's a technological limitation Apple can't solve. Apple originally intended to release iMessage as a cross-platform protocol. The technological problem isn't whether Apple could fix it, it's the fact that they haven't. So, group chats with one green bubble just work differently than group chats with all blue bubbles.
	▲	fragmede 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's a business decisions to do vendor lock in. "Free market"

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munk-a 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not a technical issue, iMessage, whatsapp and Signal can all internally communicate just fine. It's a corporation trying to exert monopolistic pressure to box out competitors by forcing additional social pressure.

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bubblewand 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why does everyone describe this wrong, every single time this comes up? It’s the consistency of the wrongness that confuses me.

No, you do not see others’ messages as blue or green. You see your own as blue or green to indicate what kind of messages you are sending.

If it was ever otherwise, it certainly hasn’t been for many years.