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?

  • samuelinox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same, I don’t think I ever sent an SMS since I got a smartphone. I also agree that relying on WhatsApp for communication isn’t the best, which is why I’m trying to gradually push myself out of there to move towards a more privacy focused messaging apps, knowing full well that I may be cutting off myself from a lot of people.

    • Necromnomicon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      In the US SMS is still the standard, it’s infuriating. Phones are starting to switch to RCS. I’ve tried a bunch of times to convert my core group of friends to Signal and it’s like talking to a brick wall.

      • improvisedbuttplug@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean considering that iPhones have ~50% market share in the US. You can just as much say iMessage is the standard.

        Factor in the other messenger services and SMS is probably a pretty small slice of the current text messaging landscape

      • carbotect@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Does your friend group have no group chat? SMS does not have a group chat feature I think, right?

        Usually group chats and media sharing are the features that bring people over to messengers.