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Gruber gives a pretty good breakdown of the blue/green bubble history: https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/seeing_green

Short version: SMS has been green since the first iPhone, blue iMessage was added later. Green was not invented to "punish the poors"

It doesn’t matter. That’s how teens are using it today.

So maybe someone should talk to the teens, rather than wasting taxpayer money trying punish a company for building a better product...

Maybe Apple shouldn't use their dominant position as a smartphone manufacturer to knowledgeably exploit human insecurity and exacerbate user woe in hope of selling families another iPhone: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107676/buy-your-mom-an-...

How long until the government mandates that Apple start directly parenting teenagers?

Or perhaps regulators will just require Apple to adopt Google's messaging app strategy, which is clearly much better for consumers:

> Green was not invented to "punish the poors"

No, but blue was only given to the first class citizens.