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?
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Wtf. I use a Matrix brigde to iMessage. Simple working from android. That’s the terrible truth. iPhone users live in a glossy cage, while android users can do what they want.
What’s this bridge thing now?
Matrix is a decentralized messenger. https://matrix.org/
Bridges are a way to integrate other messengers into matrix and communicate over it. Actually most big messengers are available, WhatsApp, telegram, signal, imessage, Facebook messenger. (Discord and slack, too.)
Is Apple doing it on purpose to socially pressure Android users to buy iPhones?
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FOMO keeps the current users locked in the cage as well. So it’s a retention strategy too.
In the Anglosphere iPhones hold majority market share. Having said that, rest of the world Androids have majority market share.
I don’t think people flocked to Whatsapp because of platform agnosticism. I think they did it initially because it’s superior to SMS and it just grew exponentially to where it is now.
Immigrant communities commonly use Whatsapp in the US.
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i heard it was because of text message cost and limits. The USA mostly had unlimited texts before smart phones but other places continued to have strict limits and high prices. But sending a message via WhatsApp or discord or etc etc did count as a text message just plain data. so by the time WhatsApp is a thing Americans have no need for it
Yeah thats what I meant when I said it was superior to SMS. It’s unlimited and you can send images, etc.