iPhone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble — Apple's way of showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of iMessage. SMS messaging has been around since 1992, and these ...

Blue bubbles versus green bubbles - in the world of texting, it's the difference between iPhone users and people with Androids. It's like a bubble culture war. People have been called out. People have ...

Apple's iOS 18 will support RCS this fall, improving texting between iPhone and Android users. But Android users will still show up as green text bubbles when messaging iPhones. Green text bubbles ...

Blue text bubbles have almost always been associated with Apple. The easiest way to know if someone's an Android or iPhone user without even meeting them is by sending them a text message and checking ...

Michael Anderson, a tech consultant in San Francisco, considers himself an unapologetic Android user. It's something that would come up quite a bit in his love life. When he was single and using ...

The US Department of Justice has specifically targeted Apple for its contribution to the well-known "green bubble" effect in text messaging, describing it as symbolic of "social stigma, exclusion and ...