The GIFs are stupid, but are people really that petty that they shun texting someone because they use an Android phone?
Or an iPhone with iMessage turned off?
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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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Or an iPhone with iMessage turned off?
He’s right. However, I think Samsung eliminated their headphone jack from the Note line, they’ve grasped another straw.
It’s stupid, but there are people who enjoy uniformity to a crazy degree. The nice thing about the green bubbles, no one can see you type your response. I think that’s a plus.
Haha.
and I hate it because I don't want anything related to FaceBook on my phone yet that's what my European friends (who all own iPhones) insist on using. I'm fine with everyone agreeing on a 3rd party app but not WhatsApp.
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It’s an issue more so in group messages. Having that one person in a chat full of iMessage users is a pain. Message effects don’t work (literally sends the effect as a plain text message) and you can’t leave the conversation all because that ONE person using SMS ruined it for the group. Every time someone texts that group, you will get a message whether you want to or not... if that group doesn’t want to start a new group message thread, you are SOL...
The contact circled in red is the only one in this group with an Android phone... I don’t even participate in this group anymore, yet I still get messages because they won’t start another group thread without me... I also can’t leave the conversation. I’ve had to just mute the thread.
The contact circled in red is the only one in this group with an Android phone... I don’t even participate in this group anymore, yet I still get messages because they won’t start another group thread without me... I also can’t leave the conversation. I’ve had to just mute the thread.
But... doesn’t Samsung judge people based on the brand of phone they use in nearly all of their ads? How many are there where they constantly make Samsung users look like the technically superior person while the iPhone user is just a fanboy?
Regardless... I don’t understand the point of these ads. I’m all for Samsung’s mockery (usually) but I don’t get the end goal here. It’s not like they’re advertising a superior service in any way. Samsung isn’t pointing out how their texting app is better.
These are just showing standard SMS messages dominating over blue iMessages because... #WeHateApple?
My sister and niece were both enticed to switch from their iPhones to whatever the latest and greatest Samsung phone is. They had problems immediately. My sister with Bluetooth and her car, calls going to voicemail, etc. My niece said she loved her new phone...until group messages didn't work right for her. Eventually her friends left her out of conversations. Not because of the green bubbles, though. Eventually she admitted to other problems and they both begged the carrier to let them return their Samsung phones and buy new iPhones. Lesson learned.
Green bubbles are for losers. I've read profiles on dating sites where girls have said don't even bother if you're a green bubble guy.
If I recall correctly, I have been in convos where someone seems to be ignoring green texts... but responding to blue ones. Apparently, iMessage will send texts over the internet, so if you are somewhere where you have a WiFi signal but your phone can’t communicate with the cell network towers, where the green texts come from, you don’t GET them. You keep right on getting the blue ones though, because you still have an internet connection, though you don’t have a CELL connection.
I guess Samsung (and Android in general) users get mad that iPhone users sometimes don’t reply to their texts, but before they do, they should consider the possibility that they might not be ignoring you. They might just literally NOT be getting your messages in the first place. Or maybe not, maybe I’m not quite understanding the issue. But I think that that’s what’s happening.
In any case, it’s hard to reply to a message you never got.
I don't care about green. But so many of the message I get from people I know just have the phone number as ID, so group messages that start in Android, or are mostly from phone numbers, I often can't figure out who the hell it is. If it's not a number I have in my address book with. I may know Bob, but I don't have his phone number. I give him my number. He sends his as ID, and unless what he says identifies himself. It's not the blue, it's the name. Truth is, I hardly know my own phone number. You can use your own e-mail as a means of ID, or phone number. I guess the only way you can communicate with Android users with Messages is with SMS.
So tasteless. Everyone knows SMS is antiquated. Get with the program and make something to actually compete with iMessages if you're going to rag on iMessages. Ridiculous.
Is not the main issue security? Messages, aside from all the goodies and games and such it gives you, is secure, end-to-end. When SMS messages -- not secure -- come in, you've got to see the difference. Now, I don't know what goes on with SMS messages when added to a conversation. Is it less secure? Does it make me less secure? Now, that's what those green bubbles are about. There may be people who present it as "Apple's snobbery" has more to do with the insecurity of SMS. Google tried to make its own Messages-like secure message system, but gave it up -- as a company that needs more support from the carriers might do -- and now is working on a project that would make SMS itself more secure. If so, would the green bubbles stop?
If anything makes sense, it would be for Apple and Google to cooperate. Customers want a universal texting service that is secure.
If anything makes sense, it would be for Apple and Google to cooperate. Customers want a universal texting service that is secure.
Because if they type a long response it comes back broken up. Plus you can’t send large files. The video files they send are crap because they have to be super compressed. The list goes on...
Let's reserve that judgement for the new round of Memoji/Animoji updates in the next month.