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Comment by threeseed | Hacker News Reader

I think you really need to stop speaking on behalf of average users.

Because all of the reports over the many years show that users know that a blue bubble indicates that this message is only going to be readable by other iPhones. And that a green bubble indicates it has fallen back to SMS and will incur a cost.

This whole blue message bullying narrative is because users very much are knowledgable into what is happening at a technical level.

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I'd love for that to be user surveyed, because I will guarantee you that most people have no idea that this is happening. They just know the bubble color is different and nothing else. Especially since iMessage the default "text messaging" app. Which everyone associates with SMS. People with technical knowledge even have no idea why Android messages sometimes never go to their iMessage app on iPad/Mac...which happens to me constantly with people missing important messages because something breaks in between the two.

I interact with a few dozen kids between 10-18. Every single one of them knows the difference and that blue means iMessage and green means phone. Especially since many kids don’t have phone lines and use data only iPhones that don’t even have phone numbers.

Ask a few kids and then come back.

Yeah no - just like the sister comment I too have never met anyone who doesn’t know the difference. I think you’re underestimating the intelligence of the average “non tech” user.

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