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> This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users," said an Apple spokesperson.

I could be wrong but I don’t see anything here to suggest non-iMessages will no longer have the “green bubble” like the author assumes.

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agreed, in fact I suspect it'll remain a green bubble for "insecure" but at least more features will be supported.

I suspect “work alongside“ is in that sentence to make it clear they are not replacing iMessage.

I agree with you that they’re likely to have green bubbles. Green equals not iMessage, blue equals iMessage. It seems unlikely they would introduce a third color and it would never be blue because it doesn’t support all the same features.

I wonder if there will be a third color, maybe purple?

it will remain green, which means the signaling effect will also remain. the funny thing is everyone claims it's down to quality but guessing it won't matter, plus no 8ball/facetime will still push people towards iphones.

especially w young ppl, where i think like 90% have iphones. if i had a nickel for every time a gal mentioned green bubbles give her the ick, i wouldn't be rich but could probably buy a solid steak dinner off it.

Unfortunately you'd be eating that dinner by yourself....

Jesus right for the throat

i didn't say they were directed at me

> green bubbles give her the ick

I mean, I guess I would be grateful to have such an earlier indicator that someone is not worth pursuing. Truly, who cares.

It’s not that they would reject you if they already had some sort of a connection formed with you or that they consider having “green bubbles”to be an absolute dealbreaker. But if you have 5 similarly good on paper dating candidates, you are in the very initial stage of the process with them, and you need to narrow down the list, I don’t think it is that unreasonable to do so based on “the ease of texting.” You gotta narrow down somehow, and if doing so based on “green bubbles” eliminates 1-2 max out of 5 in the very initial stage, it is kind of a not that terrible of a metric. If it was eliminating half or more, it would be a bit more questionable.

Of course, eliminating someone for “green bubbles” after you had already developed some interest in is way too much and is indeed a trait that would make one not worth pursuing.

Are you serious? You think that the brand of mobile device a potential suitor uses is a good metric to eliminate candidates?

this is a very real and powerful force that apple has shrewdly monetized

Green: iMessage

Blue: RCS

<blink>Red</blink>: SMS/MMS

There is zero chance they’re going to change iMessage to green. RCS will be green because anything other than iMessage is “other”.

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