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Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone?
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What's this about bubbles? I never heard anything about it before until last week, and it didn't make sense.
Android user.
People with iPhones use iMessage for texting which turns their bubbles blue (green for any other type of phone) and with iMessage there are a whole slew of features that people enjoy like chat bubbles to show active typing, read receipts, sending over Wi-Fi, etc. Often there's one member of a group chat with an Android who can't take advantage of those features and it limits the group chat features since they use SMS/MMS/RCS protocol instead. Here's an article about it:
https://www.androidauthority.com/green-bubble-phenomenon-1021350/
Android to Android uses RCS: feature rich
iPhone to iPhone uses iMessage: feature rich
Android to iPhone uses SMS or MMS: bland, boring, and unsecure
Why you ask, Apple won't let anyone else use the iMessage protocol and also won't add RCS to their phones so they just use a protocol from the 90s instead