The history of blue and green iPhone message bubbles is tied to the development of iMessage, Apple's proprietary messaging service. It was introduced with iOS 5 in 2011, offering iPhone users a seamless and free way to send text messages, photos, videos, and more.
The color difference of message bubbles was a visual cue to distinguish between iMessages, which are sent over the Internet, and traditional SMS messages, which use a cellular network.
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Interesting!
Hello! What’s the song used in the video called?
@@gamingwithsheep4226 Bensound: "Piano Moment"
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They made a video SUSPICIOUSLY Like yours.
The most baffling thing about this is that this is strictly a US issue. Other countries use third party apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Discord, and so on. Today most people really only use the default messaging app for OTPs/Authentication codes and nothing else
Well said , here almost all people use WhatsApp
Is it? Do they? I’m not in the U.S. and it’s a things here. But way to speak for everyone.
@@kimjong-un5570Definitely not in North Korea, most people don’t even have internet access or a mobile phone there.
@@oevers 😭😂😂
same here, we never use imessage in asia
USA: blue vs green Rest of the world: no one cares
Therefore you are better. Except all the stuff that’s the same like racism, ethnic competition and violence, nationalism etc
It’s weird that the majority of Android users cry over the color of bubbles. I’m using an S21 and I don’t really care about the message bubble coloring conflict. 😂
@@SkibidiPalestineI use a pixel 6 and am in middle school, Android users are discriminated against sadly. Never leaving pixel though, was using beeper mini until it shut down too (3 days of imessage)
@@SkibidiPalestineI’m an iphone user and bubble colour doesn’t bother me either, it’s so trivial isnt it lol. 😂😂
@@nnjjee1nationalism is the best
If someone chooses not to date you because of your phone, you just dodged a big red flag 😂
Communication is easier through blue bubbles lol. iMessage >
YES!
Is it weird that I become very slightly more attracted to a woman if she uses an android phone?
@@Channel-wx1li me too 😂 it shows right away shows she's likely not basic or fake. Although if we assume things about people just because of their phone we're no better than iPhone users who do the same 💀
Extremely shallow people
It's really crazy how there are many people who use iphone just for iMessage because their friends have an iPhone and they don't want to be ridiculed for having green bubbles instead of blue bubbles. The colour of bubbles have made people choose iPhone.
Kinda sounds like racism
@@Aelitaa4nah not even close
@@Aelitaa4 fax
@@LocalAitchBut at the end of the day.. it is
@@Vista0279 imagine thinking that a phone bubble color is remotely close to anything you could call "racism"
Kermit was right, it’s not easy being green.
When I was in high school, I was in two programs being a residential construction class and DECA, classmates straight up refused to let android users in the group chat for DECA and in my construction class we had a second group chat that had everyone that uses an iPhone so we could use the iMessage features and it resulted in two classmates switching from android to iPhone just so they could be apart of it
Geez.
It amazes me how people don’t think about using WhatsApp or some other app
If I meet these people in person, I'd get them on WhatsApp. If I don't, I'd get them on Discord. Assuming my university has no Slack group
Isheep cult
You probably don't want to work with those people of that's how they act.
People don’t understand that sms basically cost so cheap that it is nothing or it is free in America. WhatsApp was relevant because outside the USA, sms was extremely expensive. That is why WhatsApp never boomed in USA. It has nothing to do of how weird is America. If world wide sms cost was free than WhatsApp would have never existed
you are so right. In russia back in a day we even used latin alphabet so we could fit more in one sms. it was crazy expensive. even now sms is still not included in a plan and no one thinks of using it
SMS used to be somewhat expensive in the U.S., but it seems to have gotten very cheap (or free) by the time smartphones became widespread in the early 2010s. Nowadays, almost every cellular plan in the U.S. includes unlimited SMS and talk time. That's why textspeak (txtspk) was invented: not only was it faster to type, but using fewer letters meant you could fit more words into one message (which used to be capped at 160 characters).
Exactly
@@InventorZahranAnd the reason it got cheap? There was no point in charging for it when almost all phones had Wi-Fi and you could send messages over an app like WhatsApp to other people.
Can't believe Tim Cook used a "yo mama" one but classy 🤣
@1-2-Three-Four and I took that personally 😤
@1-2-Three-Fouri know haha. all good!
I really don't get the deal with the US and SMS. In Brazil we just use Whatsapp, Instagram, Telegram, even Discord, and as far as I'm aware that's basically the same for most of the world, just with different apps.
Yeah, here in Portugal too. I use whatsapp or discord 99% of the time
We have a larger country than most and it's not attached to other countries besides Canada (who uses SMS) and Mexico (where we can still use SMS). When you start having multiple countries on a continent, its more logical to have data driven messaging than cellular due to each country having its unique range of frequencies.
w Polsce też
@@superiortoall22no. europe for example is the same frequency band regardless of where you are pretty much, be it data be it normal sms. it has to do with sms being much much more expensive here initially while data waw always comparatively cheap. so people used things that use data, like whatsapp, regardless of platform.
@@superiortoall22 I mean, Brazil is just as big, we do have more neighbors but geographically it's not much of a concern like in Europe, and data is simply far more efficient in every way (ergo why iMessage uses data over cellular whenever possible) for the past 15 years or so.
Just because messages are green doesn't mean it comes from Android. It's just ANY other OS that isn't iOS. Like whatever proprietary software that's used to send authentication codes.
how u gonna justify .7% of ppl 😭😭
Anybody that’s poor jk
Also you can disable iMessage.
That "proprietary software" is usually a machine running Linux, and guess what OS Android is based on? Linux :)
@@achoo7471that's just the US problems rest of the world is using what's app
I cant tell you how much ive been berated for being a green bubble but honestly it makes me wanna keep using Android just out of spite.
no one cares
@@vmusatovapparently you do
The worst part: it be your own friends doing it
well tell them how much their iPhone is part of their life and caring about a green bubble really shows their shitty personality 😂 i also use an iphone too as well, but don’t give a shit about the color
The people who push you out for this reason are not even real they will never help you they are the so called parasites someone can have
In Europe, just most people use WhatsApp to communicate.
The worst app of them all 😂 just regarding security. Facebook got in trouble saying it was “encrypted” 😭
Yes thank you we all know that
@@thisaintartare you saying that WhatsApp doesn't actually use E2EE?
here in LATAM, we do the same. xD
Security > WhatsApp
I just appreciate that you made a video about this and didn’t make it a half hour long 😂 Thank you
Always look forward to your videos
“Preferring to date someone who has an iPhone” bruh what is wrong with this generation 💀💀
All generations have problems when it comes to dating
I still think Apple _will_ differentiate between iMessage, SMS and RCS text. That's why I've suggested we may see RCS messages in a new color bubble (I've suggested orange) to avoid confusion with SMS messages.
Nope it’s staying green
They could have at least made RCS a darker green than SMS like Google Messages does
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Great graphics!
Is the RCS iPhone part only for EU. Or is it also coming to U.S as well.
I’d love to see Apple release an iOS update that lets us go back to experience all of the classic iOS themes. Loved the original blue and green bubbles. Some of those versions of iOS were so nice then. Plus iMessage is due for some enhancement. We’ve pretty much had the same bubble icons since iOS 7 released 11 years ago.
I remember you saying that it is simply impossible for an Android device to use the iMessage protocol, and that it is so securely designed in its current form that it would not work on Android devices and would have to be modified in an insecure way. It turned out that this was not true all along, the iMessage protocol could always be reverse engineered and always worked on Android devices in its current secure protocol.
even Apple explained change his mind about Apple
Finally someone pronounces “read receipts” correctly.
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Great channel to fall asleep to if you watch the videos on playlist. Super peaceful
FaceTime was originally open source, but Apple got sued by a patent troll so they had to make it non-peer to peer. They weren’t going to pay for Android users on their servers (justifiably so) so they made some only, by the time they figure out how to make it peer to peer, without breaking any patents, the popularity has grown so much they realized it was a reason for people to switch/stay with Apple. So you could blame patent law/trolling on that one.
Yep VirnetX
Patent trolls are moslty an American problem bc of the stupid everyone has the pay in the lawsuit
Haven’t Apple made FaceTime cross platform compatible during the pandemic? With people able to share links to a video web link? Or something? I am sure I remember something like that coming out, although I haven’t had a need to try it.
Yeah
They humiliated Android ‘cause they have to wait for a link to be created for them 😂
@@thisaintart yea and it’s in the browser
That's not cross platform compatibility though
Doesn't really count though as full compatibility on Android. They only did it because Zoom was very popular during the pandemic (people working at home). This was just an attempt to compete with zoom, that's all.
1:32 RCS chats are actually great. Even if you lose connection, Google Messages app asks for your confirmation for switching to SMS and can also automatically switch back when connection is re-established.
the EU is a life saver.
Nice video!
I mean if Apple opens iMessage I probably wouldn’t use iPhone anymore and Tim Cooks knew it…
It’s ridiculous that this is even a topic. People in India use WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal etc, perfectly compatible cross platform and has never been an issue. Buying an iPhone or Android based phone shouldn’t never be about IMessage/ FaceTime. These are just communication platforms and there are plenty of alternatives cross platform
They are just dumb to choose a service that's only available on one platform.
Facetime is garbage google meet or even whatapp facetime is whole lot of better
Historically, people in the US have unlimited SMS plans, so there was never the incentive for people to use 3rd party messaging apps.
I've never thought of anything like that. We have WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, etc. Messages on all devices go as data messages, not SMS / MMS. That's why I don't really care about green and blue bubbles in iMessage app.
so if EU rolled back the requirement does that mean apple won't be allowing RCS?
Europe is amazing in this whole apple vs android fight. they are making things that we thought would never happen, happen!
19 minutes ago? Less go 🗣️🔥
That's why I use both an iPhone and a Samsung phone. The iPhone as a secondary device and for those who want to use iMessage with me and the Galaxy to fulfill my dreams of customization and lots of software features.
finally green message won't using cellular network anymore but using Wi-Fi could be useful without consumes cellular data now. I hope Green message can using over internet to become one with blue messages in the future.
anyone not from US just laugh at this
yeah exactly, just the stupid americans (to clarify i mean the us) being at it again as always.
How is imessage any different then whatsapp ? Or telegram ?
What makes me laugh about all of this is the fact that the green/blue bubble war is only one sided. Android users can have whatever colored bubble they want.
Fun fact I guess but is just noticed that the music you always play in the background is albo played as „relaxing” music in the main railway station in Toruń, Poland 🇵🇱
My entire family has iPhones because of this
Please do a video on why messaging apps (ie WhatsApp) removed their Apple Watch version
So satisfying to see the EU put Apple in its place
There's no limit for people's vanity. Thanks, America
Nice
Honest review? Never change this background audio. I automatically become uninterested in old videos without it. It has become synonymous with your channel. Sometimes the constant is what gets us by. 🎉
To date someone over an iPhone is crazy
"If I switch to iPhone, will I be consuming more natural resources and increasing my carbon footprint even though I already have a perfectly functional phone?" "Yes, but we don't care that you can make your existing Android device feel new again by just replacing the battery. Buy an iPhone and feel new again rather than replacing the battery on your Android phone."
As a person living in a country where most people use Whatsapp, see this as an absolute win.
Whatsapp is owned by Facebook so I guess choose the lesser evil
billions of people will disagree with you@@connerwine8705
Anyone who seriously cares enough about the color of bubbles that they're willing to bully people over them needs to grow up. I would even go as far as to say they're not worth associating with. My concern is that SMS is unsecure, and since people in the US don't like using third party messengers, there needs to be a way for iPhone and Android users to communicate securely.
I never imagined people buy an iPhone for solely to get an iMessage In my country people use Facebook Messenger. I bought my first IPhone for gaming because games and apps are better optimized for iOS and I liked the hardware design of an iPhone.
SMS did not use data. MMS, although using data, did not take away from your monthly allotment. If you're in the middle of nowhere, just sending a quick "hello" over iMessage takes data vs. an SMS which does not. With those false statements, you managed to get me to tune out within 15 seconds.
The EU should focus on more important stuff than green or blue bubbles, for example, making manufactures ship phones with their respective chargers
It really makes us feel astonished who live outside US while hearing about this issue. Everywhere else in the world the society doesn't care about Apple or Android except for outside brand display. Nobody uses iMessage. Seriously. Many of the iPhone users don't even know about it frankly speaking.
video idea: why won’t apple add the m series chips into their iphones?
Is there a reason why PC’s don’t do FaceTime but you can get iTunes PC’s?
Dla mnie bardzo ciekawy film. pozdrawiam z Polski !
Had a friend from Poland I’d play games with online. His game name was Polski 😂
You should’ve covered that SMS used to be blue bubble not until iMessage
preventing humans from saying first.
First (what a beautiful free internet, sorry China)
Thank you European Union for standing up to corporations.
Eu changed there minds. They folded
@@shomari17 Wait what? When?
EU: when you can't create, regulate
iMessage has never been a determining factor for choosing Apple. However, the iOS has been
Im not getting blue bubble but green bubble instead when imessage is activated
Anyone know what the background track is?
I own an iPhone yet fail to date a single gal for the past 5 years 😂
U just on the wrong app 😂
At that point, you gotta look inwardly 😂
consumes zero data in imessage?? I think you have got it wrong
Technology is so interesting
Rip beeper?
The audio is so quiet compared to your other videos..
"iMesssge doesn't use data"... huh? It certainly does. Maybe you mean they don't consume individual SMS charges, which hasn't been a thing for over a decade
And now the Nothing Phone (2) is the first android with iMessage support
I’m a BIG fan
I love my iPhone 13 fr
Fun fact: there is actually also a purple color bubble but this is only used while sending a text message to someone who only uses messenger and have no sim to access iMessage or android messages
What is this, a secret ending?
Android since the HTC days and been Team Samsung since the galaxy s3 and never had no issues at all with Samsung/Android..Apple can keep they crappy iphone and blue bubbles..wait I have a s23 ultra so I can change my text bubbles to any color I want 😊
It really don’t matter what phone you got but if you want an iPhone get one
1:33 RCS wasn't really a viable solution back then. The Universal Profile wasn't even published until 2016, and nobody really adopted the standard until like 2020 when Google started pushing RCS.
2012 called they want their lightning cable back
[Returns it with pleasure]
Haapy for my folks in America but no one really uses iMessage here in India
I think the iMessage icon should be blue instead of green
I’m convinced Tim Cook decided to release RCS early just to spite the Nothing CEO for calling him out in their messages video. Like Apple already had a plan to advertise it next year but Tim just said “Fuck it this small fry thought he could play around.”
He couldn't care less. If he and his company has money, he's happy.
He did it avoid EU imposing even more stringent interoperability requirements onto Apple, like making iMessage available on Android
And this is why I can't bring myself to switch to Apple.
Good grief! None is going to date me because I have a Pixel Fold as my primary phone right now. My situation perhaps a hapless situation - as I can’t do away with my beloved smartphone! 😢
Green bubbles is solely an iPhone problem, and its Apple's fault that messages become green
1:59 anti-competitive? Using a feature of your product as a selling point is the definition of competitive.
It bothers me that people are so uptight over the color of the bubble. Like when people used to bitch at me over it and I’m like “not my problem”
apple using the locked in the Apple ecosystem strat for young people using imessage and factime. 😂
Still using WhatsApp even Telegram as Messaging even do something beyond just messaging (for Telegram)
Sup gang!
* WhatsApp exists *
* So do numerous cross-platform chat services better than SMS and MMS *
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haha apple is finally going to add RCS!!!!!
In india we just use WhatsApp.
iMessage messages are end to end encrypted which people fail to realize. With SMS which most android smartphones still use it’s not really as secure.
LOOOOOOL! WhatsApp use the end to end encrypted long way ago.
@@ramonemiliochaconperdomo7225 why should I have to use a whole external app? most people I know don’t even use that junk.
I have never seen one using iMessage or Facetime among iPhone users in India... We use Whatsapp instead... 😁
Do people not know how to download apps? I mean I get it is convenient but if you're not willing to use an app like WhatsApp or line to talk with your friend or family member who has an Android device then you are, in my honest opinion, kind a crappy person
It's so dumb and shallow but it's a thing in the US. Americans just cannot be bothered to download another messaging app.
Try getting your friends and family to ALL switch to Signal or another app. Let us know how that goes…
Someone I know once refused to download any new app on their iPhone (after installing the ones they use frequently) because it required their Apple ID password. I got a physical password book for them, and they're now willing to download apps. Meanwhile, Android hasn't asked for my password to download an app in years (if at all).
@@nnjjee1I'm American, I actually did that and I succeeded in getting my friends and family on WhatsApp (no joke)
I would never work out with me and a green bubbled person 😂
You need help them.
team samsung❤ (samsung gets alot of hate) (samsung deserves this like) (f apple for text bubble colors) 👇
I like samsung phones My first tablet was a samsung galaxy tab 3 kids Now literally almost all things in my house are samsung My mom: zflip5 My dad: s22 ultra My microwave: samsung My fridge: samsung My uhhmmm, washer?: samsung
@@Arink22 wow. thats alot of samsungs. i would switch to samsung, but all my info is on IOS (apple) and ya cant beat airdrop. but i like samsung better.
crazy
I’ve never got a scam text from Blue…
I have many times
😂