Adding to this, people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.
We’re also apparently the largest userbase of iMessage, whereas the rest of the world has more sense to use third-party apps to talk to family and friends from around the world.
peopleSome/many iPhone users in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.
Ftfy.
Plus, the iMessage approach is the right answer. A single messaging app that will use a modern network-based comm channel with anyone who has the capability, with a fallback to SMS/MMS for those who don’t.
Which Signal was doing until this year, unfortunately.
Adding to this, people in the US in general treat the blue message bubbles as a status symbol.
We’re also apparently the largest userbase of iMessage, whereas the rest of the world has more sense to use third-party apps to talk to family and friends from around the world.
Ftfy.
Plus, the iMessage approach is the right answer. A single messaging app that will use a modern network-based comm channel with anyone who has the capability, with a fallback to SMS/MMS for those who don’t.
Which Signal was doing until this year, unfortunately.
I use textra. My message bubbles are blue. I am cool.
I switched from Textra recently to get the benefits of RCS in Google Messages. I really wish more apps would(/could?) implement it than Google’s own.
Hahahaha, have an upvote.
Hahahaha, have an upvote.
Never heard of this being a status symbol in the US… what a dumb notion.
Children. Children do that.