I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.
In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.
Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?
SMS used to be really expensive and limited feature wise. Sending messages over IP ment that you did not have to care about how many messages you sent and you could send media with non potato resolution. Media over the phone network (MMS) was basically limited to small images.
Since the messaging apps were developed by third parties (and not your phone company) there was a market for several of them. The phone companies tried to counter with RCS, but being phone companies and not internet savvy pioneers, it was a slow process to get wide adoption.
This makes sense. I was a late adopter of cell phones, mainly because I’m asocial and the thought of someone being able to contact me wherever I was is a terrifying thing. I didn’t even really get into it until smartphones, because that’s what made it worth it. Anything I want to know, right now? Yes please.
I never used it to send things to others until reddit got crazy popular and even I heard about it.