Americans seem to be the only ones who get irritated over the colour of the bubbles. Get over it or attend rehab.
The color of the bubble isn’t the problem. iMessage uses a green bubble as a indicator that your iMessages are being sent as SMS, which is an old, terrible standard.
Imagine if 90% of people used WhatsApp/Discord but 10% of people are using the default messaging app on their phone. Those 10% of people are causing you to have shitty video/picture messaging. No typing indicators. No read receipts. No delivery confirmation. No in-line replies. Now imagine if you’re in a group chat with several people, but that ONE person causes ALL of you to have those limitations. The group would be pissed off at that one person. That’s blue bubble/green bubble bullying.
Exactly! I wish people understand it’s not the color itself; it’s what the color represents.
It’s okay. We love it that you hate us.
I mean we always knew that
Blue bubbles matter
But you can install a theme if you want say black and white or pink and yellow, no?
The problem isn’t the bubble color. Green tells the iOS user that the recipient is receiving an SMS text which fucks up all “messaging” functionality that has become commonplace on iMessage/WhatsApp, Discord, etc.
Aw I wanted purple bubbles
Should make them red so RGB are all represented.
Apple loves school bullying I guess
Why the fuck would you make a post with a title like that?
“RCS will be green”…
damn. I was hoping for Mauve.
Haha all that push and regardless of protocols android really wanted the blue color and now they can not complain because it would look petty to place a new ad asking everyone to reach out to Apple and convince them to change a text color.
Digital discrimination (especially with teens) over bubble colors and Apple 100% encouraging tribalism. Imagine if the discriminating factor for bubble colors was some other criteria…
The problem isn’t the bubble color. Green tells the iOS user that the recipient is receiving an SMS text which fucks up all “messaging” functionality that has become commonplace on iMessage/WhatsApp, Discord, etc.
I’m not sure implementing RCS will require it to functionally be any different than SMS/MMS. Any given client registers with the capabilities they support. Supporting every feature is not required though. Green bubbles are obviously ok. Typing indicators/read receipts could be left out. Image/video quality could still be downgraded. (I doubt this will happen since there’s no technical reason to do so just for RCS).
Playing nice with iMessage isn’t required. One of the biggest headaches for group chats is that leaving an iMessage conversation isn’t possible once one person is on SMS. Other iMessage features also don’t work once one person is using SMS. That could still exist. E2EE is already out.
This may not be the win Google was hoping for.
Playing nice with iMessage isn’t required.
Don’t tell that to the EU… They’re looking to force iMessage interoperability with other messaging apps regardless of iMessage’s popularity/share market in the EU economic area.
Apple adopting RCS might stave off their attempt for iMessage, but who knows what the EU will do.
Lack of use of iMessage in the EU might save it. Apple could also just turn it off in the EU.
I’m not sure iMessage and SMS/RCS will be allowed to be in the same app going forward in the EU at least.
My interpretation is that would be unfair under the proposed rules. Apple would need to make iMessage a separate app jailed the same way WhatsApp etc are or open up the API’s in such a way they can all integrate the same way.
I think this is more “for now”.
Once RCS is implemented, people will be fine with green, assuming it’s green, as the experience should be much better regardless of what protocol is being used. Green currently means crappy photos, media, and other various experiences that comes with sms/mms.
Wait until the EU hears about this shit! See if they don’t legislate that all messages must be the same color!