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Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry.

But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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[–] ThisIsNecessary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm a dedicated Android user, and really none of my friends or family use iPhone. What is a blue or green bubble??

[–] nocturne213@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When you send a text from an iphone to another iphone the text bubble is blue. When you send a text from an iphone to a non iphone user it is green.

[–] ThisIsNecessary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you! I've never experienced that so I had no idea.

[–] carushli@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s a very US thing since they’re still texting normally and in iMessage, normal SMS show up as green bubbles instead of blue.

In the rest of the world, messaging apps like WhatsApp are more popular which doesn’t have this.

[–] ThisIsNecessary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm in the US and rarely use regular text. I'm mostly texting through Facebook messenger actually although I don't really use Facebook itself. Just most of my friends use that method to send messages.

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