TechCheck+ Apple vs. Green Bubbles: the cracks beginning to show in its walled garden 12/15/23

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4.5 • 66 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The stigma is real. Blue bubbles for iPhone users, green bubbles for those shut out of Apple's walled garden. iMessage has been a way of locking users into the Apple ecosystem for more than a decade. But the exclusionary nature of the battle has since come under fire, and Apple has begun to bend to the green bubble evangelists – just one in a growing number of concessions it's making to appease regulators.

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0:00.0	Texting is no longer just messaging. It is a statement. Blue bubble versus Green
0:05.4	bubble and the stigma it's real. He's a 10 but he has an Android phone. What's his new
0:10.0	rating? One. This week on Tech Check, Apple versus the green bubble.
0:18.3	Blue versus green. They text you green tax bubble pops,
0:21.5	saying, what the B. Android?
0:25.0	Did you know Megan was poor?
0:27.0	It's a phenomenon that has been around for more than a decade,
0:30.0	almost as long as iPhones have.
0:32.0	People getting judged or excluded just for having a green bubble.
0:35.2	Androod users, they will mock iPhone users as well.
0:38.2	Texting someone to green text bubbles like text them to link to your go-fundi page.
0:43.2	When someone with an iPhone text someone without using SMS instead of the Apple
0:47.2	exclusive iMessage, the green bubbles show up.
0:50.0	She gave me her number, but then I had an Android at the time, so I was like green text.
0:54.6	It was giving red flags all over.
0:58.0	And it's missing features too, like no Reed receipts, no FaceTime, no three dots,
1:01.9	so you know the other person is typing lower media quality
1:05.0	annoying group chats got a family chat group and like 20 people all have
1:10.0	iPhones and there's the one person with the Android it creates problems from time to
1:13.4	time. This has been part of Apple's strategy from the very beginning. Even its own
1:18.0	website seemed to brag about it. I messages are blue so you're not.
1:21.6	SMS textures will be green with envy.
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