No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed. But thanks to a decade and a half of nearly constant strategy changes, competing product launches, and internal sabotage, you can't say Google has a dominant or even stable instant messaging platform today.
Google's 16 years of messenger wheel-spinning has allowed products from more focused companies to pass it by. Embarrassingly, nearly all of these products are much younger than Google's messaging efforts. Consider competitors like WhatsApp (12 years old), Facebook Messenger (nine years old), iMessage (nine years old), and Slack (eight years old)—Google Talk even had video chat four years before Zoom was a thing.
Currently, you would probably rank Google's offerings behind every other big-tech competitor. A lack of any kind of top-down messaging leadership at Google has led to a decade and a half of messaging purgatory, with Google both unable to leave the space altogether and unable to commit to a single product. While companies like Facebook and Salesforce invest tens of billions of dollars into a lone messaging app, Google seems content only to spin up an innumerable number of under-funded, unstable side projects led by job-hopping project managers. There have been periods when Google briefly produced a good messaging solution, but the constant shutdowns, focus-shifting, and sabotage of established products have stopped Google from carrying much of these user bases—or user goodwill—forward into the present day.
Because no single company has ever failed at something this badly, for this long, with this many different products (and because it has barely been a month since the rollout of Google Chat), the time has come to outline the history of Google messaging. Prepare yourselves, dear readers, for a non-stop rollercoaster of new product launches, neglected established products, unexpected shut-downs, and legions of confused, frustrated, and exiled users.
Google took to Twitter this weekend to complain that iMessage is just too darn influential with today's kids. The company was responding to a Wall Street Journal report detailing the lock-in and social pressure Apple's walled garden is creating among US teens. iMessage brands texts from iPhone users with a blue background and gives them additional features, while texts from Android phones are shown in green and only have the base SMS feature set. According to the article, "Teens and college students said they dread the ostracism that comes with a green text. The social pressure is palpable, with some reporting being ostracized or singled out after switching away from iPhones." Google feels this is a problem.
"iMessage should not benefit from bullying," the official Android Twitter account wrote. "Texting should bring us together, and the solution exists. Let's fix this as one industry." Google SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer chimed in, too, saying, "Apple's iMessage lock-in is a documented strategy. Using peer pressure and bullying as a way to sell products is disingenuous for a company that has humanity and equity as a core part of its marketing. The standards exist today to fix this."
The "solution" Google is pushing here is RCS, or Rich Communication Services, a GSMA standard from 2008 that has slowly gained traction as an upgrade to SMS. RCS adds typing indicators, user presence, and better image sharing to carrier messaging. It is a 14-year-old carrier standard, though, so it lacks many of the features you would want from a modern messaging service, like end-to-end encryption and support for non-phone devices. Google tries to band-aid over the aging standard with its "Google Messaging" client, but the result is a lot of clunky solutions that don't add up to a good modern messaging service.
Since RCS replaces SMS, Google has been on a campaign to get the industry to make the upgrade. After years of protesting, the US carriers are all onboard, and there is some uptake among the international carriers, too. The biggest holdout is Apple, which only supports SMS through iMessage.
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Even if Google could magically roll out RCS everywhere, it's a poor standard to build a messaging platform on because it is dependent on a carrier phone bill. It's anti-Internet and can't natively work on webpages, PCs, smartwatches, and tablets, because those things don't have SIM cards. The carriers designed RCS, so RCS puts your carrier bill at the center of your online identity, even when free identification methods like email exist and work on more devices. Google is just promoting carrier lock-in as a solution to Apple lock-in.
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
No, the messages I receive are black color on grey background. They are not blue or green.
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
No, the messages I receive are black color on grey background. They are not blue or green.
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
No, the messages I receive are black color on grey background. They are not blue or green.
Sent messages only.
I see. If I sent a message to an Android, my message is green in my iMessage app. How do I bully the Android?
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
No, the messages I receive are black color on grey background. They are not blue or green.
Sent messages only.
I see. If I sent a message to an Android, my message is green in my iMessage app. How do I bully the Android?
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
No, the messages I receive are black color on grey background. They are not blue or green.
Sent messages only.
I see. If I sent a message to an Android, my message is green in my iMessage app. How do I bully the Android?
The issue is young people with an aversion to receiving green texts.
70% of American young people use iPhones so, getting anything but blue is an exception that marks the sender as being outside the norm -- which is a mortal sin to a teen.
I'm not trying to justify it so don't shoot the messenger.
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
No, the messages I receive are black color on grey background. They are not blue or green.
Sent messages only.
I see. If I sent a message to an Android, my message is green in my iMessage app. How do I bully the Android?
The issue is young people with an aversion to receiving green texts.
70% of American young people use iPhones so, getting anything but blue is an exception that marks the sender as being outside the norm -- which is a mortal sin to a teen.
I'm not trying to justify it so don't shoot the messenger.
I see my message is green sending to non-iPhone user. Does the non-iPhone user see my message turning to blue?
No iMessage is exclusive to Apple devices only (Mac and iOS). I don't really see anything wrong with that. If Apple or any other manufacturer wants to have its own platform then so be it. It's not like Apple makes it so you can ONLY message other Apple devices. If Apple did this then I think there would be more of an issue but just because Apple's iMessage platform is widely successful doesn't mean they need to allow others to use it or even start supporting other platforms.
I am confused. How does this green text come from?
The green bubble means that particular message was sent via SMS texting not from the iMessage sevice. iMessage routes through Apple servers and the app is only available on Apple devices (Mac or iOS). I believe the idea was the green bubble was to signify that it was an SMS text message being sent and therefore may be charged if you don't have unlimited texting.
Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
No, the messages I receive are black color on grey background. They are not blue or green.
Sent messages only.
I see. If I sent a message to an Android, my message is green in my iMessage app. How do I bully the Android?
The issue is young people with an aversion to receiving green texts.
70% of American young people use iPhones so, getting anything but blue is an exception that marks the sender as being outside the norm -- which is a mortal sin to a teen.
I'm not trying to justify it so don't shoot the messenger.
I see my message is green sending to non-iPhone user. Does the non-iPhone user see my message turning to blue?
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Android phones do not support iMessage because Apple elects to not make it available on the Android platform. Its an Apple exclusive thing. You can still message Android device inside of iMessage (the app) using SMS. Apple will automatically determine whether or not the device you're sending to is an Apple device signed into an Apple ID and just send it via iMessage. If it detects either a Apple device not signed into iCloud or a non-Apple device it will just send it via SMS.
Basically, the green bubble was simply to tell a user on an Apple device that the message was not sent through Apple's messaging system, but rather your phone carriers texting service (SMS).
I hope this clears things up.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-android-messaging-google-says-imessage-is-too-powerful/
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