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Samsung Created a Bunch of Pro-Green Bubble GIFs to Get Back at iPhone Users Who Prefer Blue Chat Bubbles
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Are they practicing safe text?
They want to be Apple so bad it hurts. Embarrassing.
This is only an issue in US, outside, Apple msg system is virtually nonexistent. Whatsapp, some telegram, etc
Oh I wouldn't be so sure. I'm in the UK and only use iMessage. Same with all my friends & family. But we're English. And posh. If I get a green SMS from someone it gets deleted immediately and the sender blocked. Riffraff.
It’s a good distraction to using the headphone port as a sales point and then dropping it.
I feel like that green bubble bursting out of that poor blue bubble's back is not sending the message they're trying to...
Green bubbles: a living cancer?
Green bubbles: a living cancer?
The GIFs are stupid, but are people really that petty that they shun texting someone because they use an Android phone? 
...are people really that petty that they shun texting someone because they use an Android phone?
I wasn't. But I am now
This legitimately makes zero sense. SMS is inferior to every messenger app, why are they proud to flaunt they still use SMS?
I have one gif in mind as a reaction:
I have one gif in mind as a reaction:
It seems a much better solution would be to introduce custom colored bubbles into Android and advertise the fact that you can customize the bubble color-- either your friends on your phone, or yours on theirs. If the feature had enough traction, it would force Apple to abandon their color scheme.
Personally, I hate that group chats don't differentiate sender by bubble color.
Personally, I hate that group chats don't differentiate sender by bubble color.
Do people really care about what color other people's bubbles are? As long as you can communicate, what's the big deal?
Half my friends are on Android, half are on iOS; we can all talk to each other without issue. We generally don't care what phones the others are using. And we're a bunch of goofballs, so I doubt we're more mature as a group than the average person.
Half my friends are on Android, half are on iOS; we can all talk to each other without issue. We generally don't care what phones the others are using. And we're a bunch of goofballs, so I doubt we're more mature as a group than the average person.
What kind of idiot gives a f*** if a message bubble is green or blue?! And whatˋs any of this Samsungs business?!
And whatˋs any of this Samsungs business?!
Samsung Corporate meeting: Hmm, our messaging tech is stuck in the 90's. Should we add read receipts, end-to-end encryption, and the ability to seamlessly/opportunistically bypass the phone company's SMS network?
Marketing Guy: Nah, let's just make some animated GIFs to make our users feel better about using an inferior system.
Marketing Guy: Nah, let's just make some animated GIFs to make our users feel better about using an inferior system.
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Blue bubbles indicate that you're communicating with an iPhone using over an encrypted Messages chat, vs green bubbles indicating you're having an unencrypted SMS conversation. The colour difference isn't just for show or brand loyalty, but also to visually communicate different security properties. A GIF isn't going to make SMS any more secure...
I think Samsung is missing the point here, because to send those gifs in a green bubble, you need to uses mms (not sms) and for most people that costs a lot of money. Which is why people prefer blue bubble. Internet FTW!
Because they belong to a Samesung phone. They always need charging.
More importantly, it lets iPhone users know whether their chats are encrypted end to end... or not.
I couldn't care less whether someone else has an iPhone or not. But I don't want to send sensitive information over SMS, which is relatively insecure.