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 care not because of elitism but because videos sent via MMS from android to iphone are postage stamp quality, texts sent from iphone to android frequently contain emojis that the android user can’t see because androids have like two or three places you need to go to update the core functionality of the phone, and half the android userbase only knows about one of those places. It’s a severely impaired experience, and it’s apple’s fault (I have an iphone). My girlfriend is on Android and for any kind of multimedia beyond simple pictures, we switch over to meta Messenger (she picked the app, I hate all things meta).
I didn’t know most of this.
Totally seamless Android to Android, and the videos are normal quality. And what are the multiple places to update core functionality of the phone? I get updates periodically, and I honestly have my doubts about whether any other place to check could really include “core functionality”, but maybe there’s another place for something about how it interacts with iPhones.
I tend not to send/receive a lot of videos, but the biggest problem I’ve had connecting between Android and iPhone was really more about the fact that I used to have an iPhone. When I switched, most things worked fine, but I stopped receiving texts from a few other iPhone users. I’d only notice I had missed anything, in most cases, days later when I opened up my Mac computer, and the iMessages would pour in that I never received on the phone. I kept telling these people to change their settings to send me regular texts rather than iMessages, but it turned out there was a setting I needed to change in my Apple account to disable “use iMessage”. After that change, they all started coming to my phone like any other texts, but Apple definitely could have made that transition easier (if they cared to) by automatically sending these as texts if the user hadn’t had an iPhone online in some time. If I hadn’t still had a Mac computer, I might never have known about many of these, and people might have just thought I was ignoring them!