![]() #BUBBLE TROUBLE 1 ANDROID#The Wall Street Journal published a story about how green-bubble trouble has been plaguing schools in an article titled, “Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble,” hinting that peer pressure and bullying is partially to blame for the fact that a whopping 87% of teens own an iPhone.Īs Android Authority pointed out, Cosmopolitan ran a story with the following headline: "Bad News: Bachelor Nation's Mike Johnson is an Android guy." You may just dismiss this as Twitter folly, but the green bubble hatred has become so widespread, many outlets have covered the phenomenon. " Upgraded both my parents to iPhones cause I'm tired of seeing those green bubbles," said. “ I can’t even bring myself to text someone with green bubbles,” tweeted. “ Them green bubbles are a turn off,” said on Twitter, adding a vomit emoji. Some go as far as saying they won’t date, befriend, nor associate themselves with anyone whose texts turn green. Social media is rife with iPhone users expressing their disdain for green bubbles. green is all fun and games - until it turns to bullying While Federighi was simply joking, there is a cohort of iPhone owners who take this “us vs. “They have inferior devices and they insist on sending us messages,” Federighi said. On the Messages app, the “thumbs up” reaction you send to the green-bubble folks transforms into the dreaded “ liked your comment” and you can’t send that cool “congrats” text that turns into an explosive animation either - messaging Android users is no fun for the iPhone crowd!Īt WWDC 2014, Apple engineer Craig Federighi couldn’t help but make a funny dig at non-iPhone users by referring to them as “green-bubble friends” in a playful, yet condescending tone. As iPhone owners frolic together in this iMessage paradise where harmonious features such as memojis and FaceTime exist, Apple geniously - and mischievously - painted Android users as the ugly green trolls who show up and disrupt the utopic party. iPhone users’ go-to texting platform, making it the crux of the iOS experience. Sure, Android users have WhatsApp, which is pretty damn good, but the difference is that it’s not the default messaging platform on any Android device. Designating Android users as the green-bubble freaks may not have been its plan at the time, but I do believe Apple eventually understood its impact - and watched it take on a life of its own as impressionable consumers drank the proverbial blue Kool-Aid and marginalized those who didn’t. Apple is the supervillain in this analogy. In many comic books, the evil genius antihero concocts their take-over-the-world plans after an original, innocuous idea - often initially intended for good - incites a “Eureka!” moment. “At the time” are the operative words here. “The idea that it could keep users locked in to using Apple devices wasn’t even part of the conversation at the time,” he said. As such, the blue-and-green messages stuck as it was rolled out publicly. Apple engineers needed a way to easily determine which texts were iMessage-based while working with other formats. IMessage (Image credit: Getty Images/NurPhoto)īut that doesn’t mean Apple doesn’t have a sinister strategy up its sleeves.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, citing former Apple engineer Justin Santamaria, the blue iMessage bubble was born out of a simple engineering necessity. ![]()
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