Yep. They’re never going away.
Blue = iMessage Green = Other
It doesn’t matter if both support 100% identical feature sets, it’s gonna stay like that.
Blue = iMessage Green = Other
It doesn’t matter if both support 100% identical feature sets, it’s gonna stay like that.
Blue bubbles are a branding thing, they wouldn’t share them with others. Then what’s the point of having the branding?
They do actually indicate a difference of functionality. RCS doesn’t support iMessage apps for example, not that those get much use.
But like I said, even at parity I think they’d keep the branding.
Blue bubbles don't mean privacy, and green bubbles don't mean insecure. I would presume encrypted RCS would satisfy privacy, and would remain green to indicate it doesn't support iMessage-specific features.
No it doesn't, and it would mean that even less when green messages start meaning end-to-end encrypted RCS.
Green means not-iMessage and supports SMS / MMS / RCS features.
Presumably when Apple rolls this out, both blue and green messages could be end-to-end encrypted. It remains to be seen whether Apple will add an indicator for RCS (and potentially iMessage) encrypted messages. I could imagine them being jerks about it and not indicating when green messages are just as secure as iMessage, or they adjust their messages that iMessage is more secure/private because Apple trusts their own key exchange more than RCS.
You are at the very least letting this hypothetical scenario (that another random HN commenter posed) feed into your “damn Apple!” feedback loop.
Blue bubbles says nothing about privacy. It tells users which service is being used. It informs them about what to expect. Chill.
iMessage is encrypted, so it is pretty private. Am I missing something?
Once again, I'm engaging with a hypothetical. Indeed this is how it would play out in reality.
If the feature sets of the blue and green door happen to be the same for a time, that doesn't mean a message sent through the green door is "actually" leaving through the blue... The doors are actually different (even if the feature sets are the same (for a time))
Equivalent does not mean the same. Sending an actual SMS can cost extra.
That's completely irrelevant. The problem was (obviously!) always about the incompatibilities rather than the color.
What most are saying is that there’s always been the perception that comes with green messages. When I was on Android (pretty much since the first Nexus all the way to the Galaxy Fold 4), I definitely noticed iPhone users avoiding SMSing with me or in groups, and instead using Facebook Messenger because of the issues that come with group texts involving non-iOS users.
Now that I’m on iOS, I’m aware of the differences, although I don’t particularly care since so many Android devices support RCS.
Then they should buy an iPhone if social posturing is important to them.
In all seriousness now: the green buble shows you that you’re sending SMSes which, based on carrier and/or country it can cost you, especially if you’re roaming overseeas where every SMS is 10/20/50c each.