>people have just resorted to ostracizing android users by co-opting iOS' "green bubbles" as a scarlet letter.
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
The comments cover other aspects like middle school teachers seeing it first hand amongst students
When this is not possible, it falls back to sending normal SMS, which can be read in plain text by third parties in the middle and has no encryption, when that occurs messages are shown within a "green bubble".
Therefore, messaging android users shows a "green bubble". People know its both an android user and unencrypted.
This also results in a worse messaging experience for the iOS users, as all of their other rich media is disabled and handicapped as long as that conversation involves an android user.