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Comment by schmichael | Hacker News Reader

Ha, at least when I read this thread you were getting downvoted but iMessages is 100% the thing keeping me on iPhone. I don't want to go back to being a dreaded green text to friends and family. Software-wise I can't think of any other differences between iOS and Android other than I vastly prefer Android's keyboard and autocorrect. Hardware-wise I'm getting much more life out of Apple devices than I did from Nexii/Pixels.

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Its the first time i've read about this "green text". I looked it up and i cant believe people make such a big wuss over something like that. Nobody in EU or Japan uses imessage/sms, so i guess this is US specific social issue.

As far as I know still using SMS is a US-only phenomenon. iMessage seamlessly upgrading SMS for iOS<->iOS chats was pretty brilliant on their part. Google/Android did it briefly with Hangouts, but IIRC it was always optin and Hangouts was EOL'd longer than it wasn't.

...so basically the "green text problem" is about as common as "imperial units." I don't know why we're so backward sometimes.

Nobody in Europe uses Messages? Pretty sure everyone with an iPhone does.

In EU everyone seems to use WhatsApp, telegram, discord, or something else. I mostly use line (as that's what people in japan use), and "Google Chat" with family. Though EU in general doesn't seem to like the diversity in chat programs and is looking to mandate a common protocol.

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