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?
There is RCS, which supports actually sending decent quality images and stuff, but it only works Android to Android. Android to iOS (although perhaps it’s changed since I last checked) can only do SMS.
And Android to iOS RCS messaging could work if Apple decided to implement RCS on iMessage.
Yeah I would love for apple to implement RCS as a fallback for iMessage, but I think there’s some technological complexity there that a lot of people ignore. You’d basically have iMessage falling back to RCS, which would then fall back to SMS, with different feature sets available for each service. If all android phones supported RCS by default and SMS could be completely replaced, it’d be more straightforward, but they don’t.