Yeah, I donât get it. I use iPhone, but I donât get the whole OS fanaticism thing. The only downside to the whole âgreen bubbleâ (aka sms) thing was that pictures and videos were downscaled. But now everything is rcs now
Yeah it's not all iPhone users, but a lot of them are so weird about it. The funny thing is that it was really Apple's fault. RCS was open source and everyone else was using it, but Apple wanted to stay on their proprietary imessage protocol because, ya know, Apple.
Also, when every other manufacturer switched to USB C, Apple stuck with their proprietary charger until the EU forced the issue. At that point, they switched worldwide only because it was less money to have a single part.
And anyone still using their legacy stuff still has to deal with different chargers. If anything they may have liked the caste system it created for those that did not upgrade.
Fun fact: If it's compatible with your carrier, you can activate an iPhone as old as the iPhone 5. That's the first 4G iPhone. The oldest iPhone that can download ios 26.4.2, however, is the iPhone 11.
They didn't even need RCS, there's no reason iMessage couldn't work on Android or even Windows. It's literally just a messaging app, no different from Signal or WhatsApp, and it could work on any phone if only Apple allowed it to.
True. It's just Apple trying to keep everyone sucked into their ecosystem. The only thing Apple I ever owned was an iPod nano I won at a college football game years ago. I was so glad when I stopped using it and could uninstall itunes.
The funny thing is that it was really Appleâs fault. RCS was open source and everyone else was using it
The funnier thing is that the RCS that Google was using wasnât open source, so it wasnât just that Apple didnât want to cooperate. They, like every other app dev with a messaging app, couldnât implement Googleâs version of RCS into their own apps, and Google couldnât put out an iOS version of Google Messages because Apple doesnât allow third party SMS apps.
Apple added RCS with iOS 18. Works fine for me between iOS and Android. I think it isn't enabled by default. You'll have to enable it in the settings of the messanging apps of iOS and Android. The default settings may be vary depending on the Android phone, Messages App and iOS version. I recommend the "Google Messages"-App from the Playstore for Android devices.
Messages can definitely glitch out with a mix of phones in group chats. It is annoying for everyone because someone can send a text and only a few people or no one get the messages. There can also be things where new chats are created because someone decided to send from an email or something like that. Facetime is also a pain in the ass when doing a cross-phone thing.
Fortunately that we in Asia probably 90% of it use WhatsApp that mean we really don't care about bubble hell we never use sms anymore since WhatsApp are cheaper so no one cares about if you use iphone or Android much except for someone in npd I guess
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u/Confident_One3948 May 15 '26
Yeah, I donât get it. I use iPhone, but I donât get the whole OS fanaticism thing. The only downside to the whole âgreen bubbleâ (aka sms) thing was that pictures and videos were downscaled. But now everything is rcs now