Samsung Bites Back At iOS Green Bubble Shaming, Rather Misses The Point

Samsung USA has created a Giphy page called Green don't care (which I suspect is meant to read 'Green, don't care) for Android users to fire back at their iPhone owning friends.

You know what it's like to be the green bubble. We made a whole gallery of green GIFs so you can message your blue bubble friends and show them it's good to be green

Some of the GIFs are clever - I especially like the Snake chomping down on the iMessage blue bubble, but it rather misses the point. Android users in iOS group chats break functionality for everyone.

Outside of the US and UK it isn't a problem because Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are the default group messaging tool in the rest of the world. But where iMessage is popular there's definitely some friction between blue and green bubble users.

Apple's strategy clearly being that peer pressure and the danger of becoming a social outcast will persuade Android users to switch to an iPhone. It's a strategy which seems to be effective.

Unfortunately for Android users, until an alternative presents itself which is sufficiently advanced to make iPhone users abandon iMessage there are only two options: suffer or switch.

You can find the Samsung GIFs here.

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