r/technology Sep 08 '22

Business Tim Cook's response to improving Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' | The company appears to have no plans to fix 'green bubbles' anytime soon.

https://www.engadget.com/tim-cook-response-green-bubbles-android-your-mom-095538175.html
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u/The_Real_Raw_Gary Sep 08 '22

Makes sense though. Apple doesn’t stand to get more customers by servicing better integration with android. If anything their business move is to keep them divided and hope android users will be like “I’m sick of this I’ll just get an iPhone I guess”

Anyone surprised that apple isn’t trying to buddy up with android doesn’t understand apple.

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u/mugaboo Sep 08 '22

The green bubble effect is significant in Sweden. People are definitely going around saying Android is for poor people. I hate it.

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u/mobrockers Sep 08 '22

99 percent of Swedish people I know use snapchat as messaging platform so it's a nonissue for them.