That would take those people out of the Apple ecosystem, Grothaus says.
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There is some psychology at play here for sure, and that was brilliant by Apple’s iMessage team.īut, as Fast Company’s Michael Grothaus points out, that bad experience might cause some chat groups to move to other platforms entirely, like Facebook’s WhatsApp or Messenger, to accommodate the Android user in the group. While I have zero evidence of this, I’d wager a strong bet the group at Apple who designed this did extensive research on the most off-putting color of green in existence and chose that for the green bubble color. In the meantime, Apple surely wouldn’t mind if more people like Ben’s Android-enthusiast teenage friend switched over to iPhones because of iMessage. If a future version of Apple’s Messages app supports RCS, it could eliminate the messaging class system. And group chatters with iPhones may feel wed to their Apple devices, fearing they too might be looked down upon if they became an Android green bubble. (Bajarin’s tweet on the subject drew crowds of commenters and more than 2.3 million impressions.) Android users may feel shunned from conversations. But the ongoing power of iMessage as a way for Apple to lock users into its platform remains remarkable. The notion that iPhone lovers turn up their nose when they see green bubbles has been around for a long time: Here, for instance, is Techdirt’s Mike Masnick talking about it way back in 2015. His quote verbatim, "we would start a new group chat, and the group would realize I was the reason it was green, and they would start another group chat without me It all came down to being left out of group chats. When I asked him why he made the jump, he sounded a bit remorse. “Specifically, he was being left out of group chats because he was on Android and turned the thread green.” “Kids will have a group chat just for that class with their friends to talk about homework, projects, etc.,” he tweeted. People post to social media about ghosting crushes who turn out to be Android users and have equated the green bubble to a type of diss to mean someone is outdated or broke.Bajarin has teenage daughters, and he’s involved in their school, so he’s positioned to know. A tech analyst named Ben Bajarin recently penned a Twitter thread about the teens at his kid's school, including one 16-year-old self-identified "Android guy" whose biggest reason for switching to an iPhone was because he was tired of getting left out of group chats.ĭisliking the Android green bubble has become a widespread phenomenon. Piper Jaffray's annual report on Gen Z found that 82% of teens surveyed this year own an iPhone. I felt like the outsider to an exclusive club I could get access to only with a BlackBerry, and I spent many nights begging my parents for the coveted status symbol, to no avail.īut for Generation Z, the dominance of the iPhone is even starker. While my friends in high school were exchanging BBM pins and AIM-like texts, I had a Pantech Duo, whose biggest advantage was I could flip it and fiddle with it in class like a fidget spinner. My generation is the same one who rallied around the BlackBerry and BBM, its exclusive messaging service that's really not all that different from iMessage. It's not like that fear of missing out is unsubstantiated. You can get threatened with texting blackouts only so many times before you believe that your friends would actually leave you out of future group messages. Studies have shown that around half of millennials in the US now own an iPhone, a percentage that is consistently rising. It takes involvement in only one of these group message train wrecks to know you never again want to deal with the messages spelling out that an iPhone used a heart or exclamation reaction on a text, or the countless threads that spawn from a single group.īut even if I could personally get over not having these features exclusive to iMessage, text messaging is a two-way street, and the same couldn't be said of my iPhone-loyal friends. Then there's group messaging, which completely breaks down when featuring both iPhone and Android users. I've drawn enough crude drawings and played enough games of in-app beer pong to know they're both incredibly efficient methods of procrastination. I've finally gotten used to, and now readily invite, the pending anxiety that comes in seeing those three animated dots bouncing as you watch someone type out a text. Each time I think I've convinced myself that I can do without the iMessage bubble, I'm pulled back in by the allure of read receipts and individual text reactions. However, despite the well-crafted arguments I've concocted over time in favor of Android, I'm still here with an iPhone and my blue-bubbled texts.
The OnePlus 7 Pro, one of many Android phones I could buy instead of an iPhone.
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