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iMessage, the texting app on iPhones, shows messages from other iMessage users in blue bubbles. All other messages, (i.e., Android, Windows Phone (RIP), and others), appear in green bubbles.
I had an older relative who thought that because my bubble was in green that she was being charged to see it.
At this point, I think the only reason for the blue/green bubble distriction is to get iPhone users to bully their friends into buying iPhones.
Agreed. There is a snobbery to Apple.
They (my inlaws) are all on apple and they get these $2k+ Macs and they do less on them than I do on my non-apple laptop that I got refurbished for a few hundred, but I get a definite sense from them that non-apple products are beneath them.
One of the older family members sends emails and occasionally looks something up online. She often has to hunt down her Mac because she hasn't used it in a couple of weeks. When she needed to replace it, I suggested something like mine and she got quiet and changed the subject. The next week she was telling me about her new Mac. It cost a fortune, but she didn't tell me that, to her credit.
They all have iPhones too as if anything less would mean they were in a slightly lower class. I love them or I'd tell them to pound sand.
The person who downvoted you hasn't experienced this snobbery. It exists though.
Well she is if she pays for SMS. Hardly anyone does anymore, but who knows, maybe she hasn't updated her mobile deal in 20 years.
Nobody has ever paid for receiving an sms from a regular person.
Not true. When I first got my cell phone I was charged for sms texts, both sending and receiving.
Holy shit. When was that?
Around 2010. This is in the US.
Actually I remember hearing about that... That must have been this weird era when people were starting to use online chats en masse, usage of phone calls dropped like a rock and so the cell providers were trying all kinds of crazy bullshit to squeeze money out of people.
I think near-universal unlimited texting is a fairly new (last decade) thing. Take a look at this 2008 CNET article: https://www.cnet.com/culture/the-rising-cost-of-texting/ . They're talking about a cost increase, but acting like paying is to be expected.
Maybe, but receiving sms is a different thing.
Like way back in the era before GSM, on analogue mobile phones you were charged for incoming calls too. I think in some countries that had stayed for the GSM (and equivalents) for quite a while too too.
But not sms. In some strange flash of sanity, when the 160 characters for sms got dug out and scraped out of the pits of GSM signaling systems, cell network providers agreed to never charge customers for incoming sms in roaming. Probably indeed because sms is nothing more than a piece of the signaling system, and nobody wanted to keep tracking and charging for that shit. And so nobody charged for incoming sms in general.
Thus, breaking that rule is just truly bizarre.
The blue and green colours are for the messages you send, not receive.
Oh that makes sense.