Didn’t Steve Jobs originally say that iMessage would be an open protocol? Or am I misremembering that?
Steve Jobs went on medical leave from Apple since January 2011.
Wikipedia says iMessage was announced June 6, 2011 by Scott Forstall and launched October 12, 2011.
Steve was at the announcement but died a week before that launch.
⇒ I think it’s unlikely he said anything about it in public.
It is particularly pernicious among teens[1], who drive a lot of this market (and, of course, become adults and bring their habits with them)
[1] (paywall) https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...
In my experience as a parent with two high-school-age kids, this is mostly a media-created narrative fueled by Google PR.
I've witnessed their many text chains, all of which are standards-based (green bubble) because some participants are Android users. When I asked about it explicitly their response was "that's not a thing" (at least in SoCal).
Note that I'm speaking in generalities. I have no doubt there are individual elite cliques where the alpha children demand that members have certain types of phones, wear certain types of clothing, ride certain models of ebikes, etc.
It had nothing to do with “green text”. They were annoyed that when people shared photos with the group they came through at shit quality.
Outside of what I’m sure are some articles very in tune to teenage culture (BRB, POS), I’ve literally never heard of this as a status symbol—purely as a functional issue.
IMO that's a "them" problem. By "them", I mean "people who let something as trivial as this have social and dating implications".