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Young Americans want Apple iPhones to avoid being dreaded ‘green bubbles’
Apple has captured Gen Z in America so thoroughly that younger consumers fear being socially ostracized for being “green bubbles,” not…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Android’s horrid green bubbles will remain, so get a real iPhone
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Wednesday that Android green bubbles will remain as Apple doesn’t spend a lot of effort improving texting…
Google bemoans ‘green bubbles,’ demands Apple fix Android’s atrocious text messaging problem
Google is attempting to pressure on Apple to adopt RCS on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac so that green-bubble Android users will…
Apple’s Messages for Android will never arrive and green bubbles will keep ruining Messages
For the time being, those who settle for Google insecure, privacy-trampling, fragmented, toxic hellstew will remain in their green bubble ghetto sporadically soiling our pristine, blue, full-featured Messages…
Hey, ugly, dysfunctional green bubble messengers: Get a real iPhone!
That means no acknowledgments when a message is delivered or read — or that someone is typing a response…
Switching from an iPhone to an Android phone doesn’t last long
Brian X. Chen switched from an iPhone to an Android phone last week to see how things would go. By Day 6 he was back to his trusty iPhone…
Google touts RCS on the iPhone is coming in fall 2024
Alphabet subsidiary Google’s Android website has added a new landing page for Google Messages which touts that RCS on Apple’s iPhone…
Progressive advocacy groups call on DOJ, Senate to launch investigations over Apple’s blocking of Beeper Mini
More than a dozen organizations called on the Department of Justice and the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Apple for…
Apple to support RCS messaging with Android phones next year
Apple will add RCS messaging support to iPhone, iPad, Mac through a software release early next year, the company said in a statement…
Apple iPhone increases its U.S. smartphone market share to 53%
Apple’s indomitable iPhone increased its U.S smartphone market share to 53% in Q1 2023 from 49% in Q1 2022, according to Counterpoint;
Meta’s Zuckerberg takes aim at Apple’s iMessage new ad
Facebook- and Instagram-partent Meta is targeting Apple’s iMessage in a new advertisement touting Meta’s WhatsApp’s…
Apple is right to keep ignoring Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess
Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Android green bubbles will remain as it continues to ignore Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess…
Apple iPhone overtakes derivative Android to take majority share of smartphones used in America
Apple’s revolutionary iPhone has overtaken derivative Android phones to account for more than 50% of American’s smartphones…
Apple increases iPhone 14 orders
Apple has upped its iPhone 14 orders from some 90 million units to 95 million units, clearly expecting even stronger iPhone demand…
High rates of Android to iPhone switchers is a catalyst for Apple stock
In its fiscal third quarter, Apple saw a record number of Android to iPhone switchers (really, they’re upgraders; big upgraders)…
Check out these iMessage tips and tricks
Since Apple’s iMessage release over a decade ago, billions of messages have been sent. 9to5Mac’s Allison McDaniel offers some tips and…
Apple’s iMessage is winning because of the dreaded green text bubble
Green bubbles from those who settle for pretend iPhones ruin group texts for everyone else who uses real iPhones…
Why Apple never released Messages for Android
Court documents filed in the Epic Games v. Apple case show that Apple considered a version of Messages for Android, but…
Apple iPhone users 76% more attractive on dating apps
A new study studied the world of online dating and found that schlepping a pretend iPhone could make you up to 75% less swipe-worthy…
Piper Sandler ups Apple price target to $300 on strong U.S. teen demand
Piper Jaffray has upped their price target on Apple shares from $260 to $300, citing the firm’s biannual U.S. teen consumer survey…
Android settlers mourn loss of Dark Sky app after Apple acquisition
Popular hyper-local weather app Dark Sky yesterday announced the company’s acquisition by none other than Apple, meaning the Andoid verison is discontinued…
People getting texts originally sent on Valentine’s Day hit with wide range of emotion
Something strange is happening with text messages in the US right now. Overnight, a multitude of people received text messages…
Apple Card makes iPhone even stickier
The new Apple Card credit card will help Apple retain iPhone users since the interface for the card is an iPhone app, and users won’t be able to pay their balance…
Why I finally switched to Apple’s iMessage: Encrypted chat is a moral imperative
After years of refusing to turn on iMessage — even when I’m using an iPhone — I have flipped that little toggle button to on…
WWDC 2019: Apple did the impossible and annoyed all the right people
Usually, during an Apple show, I get whiny messages from tech types who want to describe, in bloodied detail, all the things that Apple failed to do…
Why 492 out of 500 people at one company chose iPhone over Android
Of the 500 employees at the company, only 8 of them chose to use an Android phone. Everyone else — all 492 of them — chose an iPhone…
If you’re using iPhone’s ‘expressions,’ you’re irritating (Android users)
exting is how we now all communicate, which would be fine and pretty easy…
Apple reportedly to support RCS, the iMessage-like successor to SMS
Touted as an upgraded version of SMS, RCS is being spearheaded by the carriers…
Why would Amazon want to get into messaging?
There’s a tendency to give Amazon.com the benefit of the doubt whenever it looks to enter any new market…
Apple’s Messages’ blue bubble keeps me firmly on iPhone
Samsung’s Galaxy S8, like all Android phones, lacks a tiny blue-bubbled wonder: iMessage…
Messages and five other apps Apple really needs to make for Android
Android and iOS may be destined to do battle forever, but when it comes to apps…
Apple to deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC
Apple will announce that iMessage encrypted text messaging is coming to Android users…
How Apple can take on Android from the inside
Despite Google’s presence all over iOS, thus far, Apple hasn’t really made much of a mark on Android…
Apple looking for developers to help deliver more ‘exciting’ new apps for Android
Apple’s first pair of applications for Android, Apple Music and Move to iOS…
