Other The dreaded green bubble.

[1rottenapple]

I admit it’s annoying. At work we have 10 clinicians, all iPhones except one colleague. And so when we text him it turns out blue bubbles to green. Of course we don’t exclude him but it is noticeable and annoying #firstworldproblems

 

[joeblow7777]

Not a problem for me. I am an adult and I don’t give a hoot what color it is or what phone you have.

Again, the blue vs. green, iPhone vs. Android isn't the issue for anyone with a lick of maturity. The real issue is that SMS texts (green bubbles) don't allow for the same features as iMessages. This is why WhatsApp and other 3rd party message apps have pretty much replaced regular texts outside of the US and Canada.
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I admit it’s annoying. At work we have 10 clinicians, all iPhones except one colleague. And so when we text him it turns out blue bubbles to green. Of course we don’t exclude him but it is noticeable and annoying #firstworldproblems

I've actually had issues where the Android user in the group text seems to miss messages, or receive them later, especially if someone sends a picture or video. Just yesterday I had to move a group chat with colleagues to WhatsApp because there are 2 Android users in the group. It's not about being a snob or caring at all what phone people have, at times having an Android user in the group is an actual hindrance. (It's been suggested that Apple has made it this way intentionally).

 

[Starfia]

Because the majority of the population still operates using voice communications… and Skype is not something you're going to get them to use.

I'm not knocking the ones who need it and truly get value out of paying well over a dollar a day for cellular or landline service. To each their own, certainly. I do plenty of communicating by voice over the Internet using FaceTime and other apps when at home on Wi-Fi – anyone who's really trying to reach you is willing to use something over nothing, I've found. That said, Skype has been able to handle incoming phone calls using a number for years – that's why I use it when I do; I've just discovered – perhaps by doing so for a decade – that it's truly seldom in my case.

 

[pika2000]

As far as I know, google only compresses pictures if they’re above 5MB. I think most phone pictures are below that these days.

People with full scale cameras probably ain’t using google photos for their usage.

False. Google compress all the photos, even the ones 16MP or less. And a regular phone now have high enough megapixels to output more than 5MB of file.

 

[forestinjersey]

Does not bother me at all. Most of my messaging needs are via Whatsapp, FB Messanger and increasingly Instagram now. Zucherbuuuuurg got me.

 

[FFR]

Don’t get many of those these days.

Almost everybody I know or meet is on an iPhone. And even if they primarily use what’s app, Snapchat, or telegram they can still receive iMessages.

Met only one person over the last year with an android phone, a galaxy note 8. I have a feeling he will be switching to the iPhone pro Max come September, he said he wanted to try the Apple Watch.