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The US seems to have this weird obsession with SMS and iMessage.
IPhone users have a weird obsession with Blue bubbles. The rest of us find it childish and annoying. They refuse to use any messenger other than iMessage.
I have a friend, not currently on iPhone, who was having trouble with SMS (note that SMS has a known message failure rate of about 10%+). He refused to switch to another messaging app, doesn't want to have multiple places to message from. 🤦♂️
This is the mindset of iMessage obsessors. Frankly I see it as pretty juvenile. They don't want to put effort into solving a problem.
This same person always has dozens of notifications sitting in the notification shade. Stuff you just don't need to see, that Android lets you silence. Or just app notifications. Well no wonder he doesn't want another messenger, with that much garbage he wouldn't know he got a new message.
I am an iPhone user among a school of half-and-half iPhone and Android users. None of the iPhone users I've met care what bubbles you blow and while I have some friends that do prefer iMessage (when possible) we have all accepted that it's not cross-platform and a lot of people just use alternatives.
The bubble obsession is just a lie that tech news uses to sensationalize RCS marketing. While the point of cross-platform still stands, nobody cares about bubbles. At most we just talk about how sending SMS costs extra money than data one already has for some people.
It wasn't a lie from tech marketing, people genuinely acted this way.
It has faded a lot in the last decade, but it was definitely a prevalent mindset from people my age around 2010.
Ahh… that makes a lot more sense.