I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

  • @spartanatreyuEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    E2E:

    As far as I understand, Google wants to treat RCS similar to how it treats web:

    1. Have a standard
    2. experiment with some extensions
    3. learn what works and what doesn’t
    4. build what works into the standard
    5. repeat

    In that case, e2e encryption is coming to RCS.

    I know Samsung is also experimenting with e2e encryption too.

    Other:

    iMessage itself also has more features than RCS. Built in e2ee would be a big one, and aome other more vain ones.

    What other notable features (besides e2e which is discussed above) does iMessage have?

    […] Signal or even WhatsApp would still be superior.

    (Besides e2e,) What features to Signal and/or WhatsApp provide?