![]() When you message with any non-Apple users from within iMessage - as in, us lowly Android-preferring land organisms - Apple's software falls back to SMS, a text-centric messaging standard that dates back to the mid-80s and was absolutely not designed with modern messaging uses in mind.SMS doesn't offer table-stakes contemporary messaging features like built-in encryption, active typing indicators, or the ability to send high-quality images and videos in a message. It was designed in the 80s, for cryin' out loud. Not exactly optimal, right? And Apple adds insult to injury by tacking a prominent green background onto the message of anyone who's using an Android phone - that "dreaded green text bubble" we were talking about a minute ago - thus emphasizing the difference, creating a fascinating sort of manufactured stigma, and maintaining the perception among iFolk that their messaging experience is subpar with said humans because and only because such lowlife dare to use a non-Apple-blessed Android device (gasp - THE AUDACITY!).Our current-day technology didn't exist back then, and no one was using messaging at the level we use it now (Neanderthals!). Now, here's the reality of this mess - from two very different and somewhat at-odds perspectives. No way around it: Apple absolutely could and should do better with this.
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