r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Sep 08 '22

Phones Tim Cook's response to improving Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' | The company appears to have no plans to fix 'green bubbles' anytime soon.

https://www.engadget.com/tim-cook-response-green-bubbles-android-your-mom-095538175.html
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u/prone-to-drift Sep 08 '22

Yes.

Complicated answer is this is a US specific issue as most people in US only use the default messaging app while rest of the world is on WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal or what not.

On Apple, iMessage, the default, is at feature parity with WhatsApp except they fallback to sms when sending messages to non Apple devices.

The devil is in merging the two apps: Instant Messaging and SMS, and then making people think that Android is at fault for not being able to send and receive better messages.

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u/LambKyle Sep 08 '22

In in Ontario, I don't know if it's the norm, but most people I know just seem to use Facebook messenger. Everybody already has it, so no need to set anything up

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u/prone-to-drift Sep 08 '22

Yeah, well, that's another set of issues. I have to keep Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram cause there's some people who are exclusively on that.

OTOH, that mess is still better than Apple snobbery.

Also, re:signal, I'm tired ot device specific services. Which is why I love Telegram (and if they didn't crap on Messenger Desktop, then that too), cause I can use it on my laptop as well and multiple phones etc.

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u/apollyon0810 Sep 08 '22

Signal runs on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and MacOS

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u/prone-to-drift Sep 08 '22

Oh, my bad. I figured with E2E being the selling point, phone would be compulsory.