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Are your various friends/family all tech-y people?

My "normal" friends and family are majority iPhone users. I'm Android.

I "literally ruin" their group texts. I've seen people actually reject relationships because they don't date people with "green bubbles".

Don't even get me started about work group texts.

I know restaurants where some of the servers have group iMessage chats with customers for early notification about nightly specials, Android users literally can't be added.

Likely not maliciously, but this has created almost a "second/lower class" of phone users that encompasses ~50% of the country.

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> Are your various friends/family all tech-y people?

Not at all. A few of my friends are techies and they use Android/iPhone about 50/50. Family is mixed as well. No one in family uses iMessage.

> I've seen people actually reject relationships because they don't date people with "green bubbles".

This seems like a feature, not a bug. I don't think you want to date someone who makes important life choices based on Apple marketing.

Edit: Is this a "Bay Area" problem or something? Or maybe a "young people" problem? I just can't imagine caring about whether someone messages me with "blue" or "green" text bubbles.

I'm not saying I run into these people, and I agree with your take.

> Not at all. A few of my friends are techies and they use Android/iPhone about 50/50. Family is mixed as well. No one in family uses iMessage.

I would bet money this is the opposite of the majority experience.

> I would bet money this is the opposite of the majority experience.

As with ICQ/AIM/MSN Messenger back in the early 2000s I bet it's regional. WhatsApp seems extremely popular in my age/peer group where I live.

So you don't live in the US?

Canada, which is usually broadly similar to the US market.

> I've seen people actually reject relationships because they don't date people with "green bubbles".

No, that's stupid. Sorry, not trying to be a jerk, but there's no other way to put it: that's just stupid and not worth any consideration in this argument.

Even putting aside the unlikelihood of what kind of idiot would someone have to be to reject a relationship with an Android user, the basic premise of caring about blue vs green is too shallow to form as any basis of a massive suit like this.

"Apple must be broken up because people think my Android phone isn't cool" ??

But this cultural issue is literally quoted in the DOJ complaint against Apple.

Apple, by overlaying iMessage features over SMS and only accessible to iPhone users have created a virtual second class of phone users.

> I "literally ruin" their group texts. I've seen people actually reject relationships because they don't date people with "green bubbles".

Yup. We all get this. It's the most effective social lock in ever invented.

>Likely not maliciously

Why?

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