The story is sad, yet so familiar to iPhone owners. You meet someone new and give them your number, only to receive a green (harsh, unwelcoming), not blue (peaceful, comforting), text bubble.

While texting technology will soon get better, the “blue versus green bubble” disparity is far from over. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and ...

Apple and Google have exclusives, and RCS doesn't mean they'll be shared Many of Apple's best iMessage features aren't restricted to messaging, even if blue bubble chats are the most common place ...

Apple has blocked Beeper Mini, which lets Android users send blue-bubble texts to iPhones. The tech giant said the app "exploited fake credentials" and posed a security and privacy risk.

Apple Maps and Google Maps use crowdsourcing as one way of marking traffic problems, ... If you’re not navigating, tap the blue speech bubble with an exclamation mark inside it on the left.

Apple's iMessage continues to reserve encryption and other features for iPhones to the detriment of all mobile phone users. Why Apple Is Content With the Blue Bubble Divide in iMessage - CNET X ...

Green bubble vs. blue bubble . Apple is one of the few companies that has stayed away from adopting RCS and is notoriously known for its green text bubbles for Android users.

Their messages will appear in a green bubble on the iPhone user’s end rather than blue, to the chagrin of many. The big deal here isn’t the difference in bubble colors, but what those colors ...

Coming up on the show, the company that's trying to burst Apple's blue texting bubble. Nicole Nguyen: Are you a blue bubble or are you a green bubble? Ryan Knutson: I am a blue bubble, yes.

Beeper Mini, the app that lets Android users send blue-bubble texts to iPhone, is back on the Google Play store. The app was rendered unusable over the weekend after Apple made some changes to ...

While texting technology will soon get better, the “blue versus green bubble” disparity is far from over. Tech writer Brian X. Chen looks at how we can do better without digital elitism.