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Not trying to defend the blue bubble fetish, but at least in technological third world countries like Germany, it‘s still not uncommon for providers to charge 19 cents per SMS in cheaper plans.
 
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This article shows how ridiculous "most" Apple fans really are. The kind of people that know nothing but the fact that they enjoy the smell of their own farts. WAY TO GO SAMSUNG!!!

Correct. I enjoy the smell of my own farts. As a matter of fact, after an evening eating Chimchangas I'm able to entertain the masses by farting Beethoven's 5th Symphony. I bet you can't do that.
 
Unfortunately, so does Apple. Personally I find this highly amusing. Sure wish there was a real cross-platform standard for messaging.. besides SMS. My perfect world would allow me to use iMessage, someone to use Android’s built-in chat, and yet others to use WeChat, Vibe, etc... all in communication. This vendor lock-in is silly.
Isn't that because iMessage uses a different technology/protocol than the others?
 
Saw a short twitter thread the other day that described a kid in high school that actually prefers Android over iPhone but switched because of the green chat bubble.

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Full Thread Here

It sounds somewhat cruel but it's not snobbishness so much as there are things you can do in an iOS group message that you can't do if there is a green bubble in the pack.

Good luck to Samsung overcoming that.
 
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It’d be cool to have an iMessage app for Android so I don’t have to use WhatsApp to text android users. It’s stop my mum getting confused and sometimes sending me messages in iMessage and some in WhatsApp!
 
I don't like chatting with green bubble people (there aren't many in my circle that have them to begin with anyway) but that's due to the complete lack of encryption that entails. I'm a privacy nut.

I leave group chats with green bubbles. Then again I leave most group chats :p rather talk one on one or very small groups (which again generally would have blue bubbles)
 
Not trying to defend the blue bubble fetish, but at least in technological third world countries like Germany, it‘s still not uncommon for providers to charge 19 cents per SMS in cheaper plans.
I don‘t know any plan in Germany that doesn‘t include hundreds of SMS. And I never use any of them.
 
How ridiculous. Aside from telling that the user is another iPhone (who cares), for me, the important thing is that all-blue is not charged as a text-message. But honestly, who cares. Samsung just embarrasses itself with this kind of nonsense.
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I don’t know... didn’t iOS 1-4 (pre iMessage) use green bubbles anyways?

Yes they did. Green == charged as a text message by your phone company. Blue text means that it's just your data plan, and encrypted/secure too. So, the color changed to differentiate that. *any* non-iPhone gets green, not just Samsung.
 
Blue just looks better. Even the street signs in our better neighbourhoods are blue rather than green.
 
It's kind of funny, if they tried to send you this picture the SMS system would likely compress the video to potato quality before it got to you.
 
Yet another thing Samsung will pull in a year or two when their **** Marketing is no longer relevant.

They should use R&D to make a better protect.
 
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