The green bubble stigma faced by Android users who send messages to their friends with iPhones is real—even the U.S. government acknowledges it. “Many non-iPhone users… experience social stigma, ...

Analyst Ben Bajarin recently talked to a teenage boy at his daughters’ school who had defected from an Android phone to iPhone because of “iMessage lock-in.” The boy said he was tired of being shut ...

In Apple's Messages app starting with iOS 7, a green bubble surrounding the text means the incoming message came from a non-Apple phone that uses the standard SMS/MMS text messaging system (see SMS).

Samsung today debuted a bunch of GIFs that are meant to serve as comebacks for Android users who are maligned for their green text bubbles. As iPhone owners know, iMessages on an ‌iPhone‌ are denoted ...

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 popularity of iMessage in the US continues to grow, and the infamous “green bubble” can leave Android users out of group chats or even turn off potential relationships. Since Apple won’t bring an ...

This is how "texts" were sent before the flux capacitor made Skynet possible. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Did you know you can send regular old green-bubble SMS (and MMS) messages from your iPad ...

The imagined superiority of iPhone users over Android fans is a social problem that can even affect children, says New York Times columnist Brian Chen. But Apple plans to start remedying texting ...

When iPhone users see a green bubble pop up in their text messages, it has a way of dulling the experience. Emoji reactions, Facetime video calls, or even high-quality images over WiFi are immediately ...

For years, the dreaded green bubble has been a thorn in the side of iPhone users. It represents a messaging experience devoid of the modern features we've come to expect, as iOS shunts conversations ...

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 ...