#green bubbles

I waited a month to install Apple's iPadOS 18 and most of a week to install Google's Android 15, and I don't even feel bad about that.

It says something about the incremental nature of mobile operating-system updates these days that my immediate payoff for installing Apple’s iPadOS 18 on my iPad mini 6–a 37-minute process, during which I couldn’t use the tablet for five minutes–was the addition of a calculator app. Yes, the basic math application that shipped with the original Mac as a “Desk Accessory” applet, and which has…

Apple’s Messages app adds support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging in iOS 18 developer beta 2. This means iPhone users can now bypass the limitations of SMS and MMS when communicating with Android devices. RCS utilizes the internet for richer features like high-quality photos, typing indicators, read receipts, and group chats. Previously, these features were exclusive to iMessage…

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After Apple killing off the Lightning connector on the iPhone (if only they would remember to do likewise with their input devices), the story I’ve most looked forward to writing about that company would involve it raising the lowest common denominator for Android-to-iPhone text messaging from its current miserable and unencrypted state. So of course that news broke, in the form of an Apple…

Apple says it will support the Rich Communication Services messaging standard that will make it easier to send texts between real and pretend iPhones, but messages from the latter will still appear as green bubbles. Liv McMahon for The Beeb: ‎ [Apple] will introduce support for a new [sic it’s not new] messaging standard – Rich Communication Services (RCS) – on iPhones and iOS devices from…

Apple has captured Gen Z in America so thoroughly that younger consumers fear being socially ostracized for being “green bubbles,” not having an iPhone, a trend that will allow the tech giant to gain market share not only in smartphones, but in personal computers (Mac), tablets (iPad), smartwatches (Apple Watch), and multiple other markets. Patrick McGee for Financial Times: Gen Z users — those…

Apple is right to keep ignoring Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess

Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Android green bubbles will remain as it continues to ignore Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess. Cook said that Apple doesn’t spend a lot of effort improving the texting experience between iPhones and Android devices because its users haven’t been asking for it. Instead, he said, “I would love to convert you to iPhone.” Michael Allison for…

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Android’s horrid green bubbles will remain, so get a real iPhone

Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Wednesday that Android green bubbles will remain as Apple doesn’t spend a lot of effort improving the texting experience between iPhones and Android devices because its users haven’t been asking for it. Instead, he said, “I would love to convert you to iPhone.” Kif Leswing for CNBC: “I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy on that, on this point,”…