Analyst Ben Bajarin recently talked to a teenage boy at his daughters’ school who had defected from an Android phone to iPhone because of “iMessage lock-in.” The boy said he was tired of being shut ...

Android and iPhone owners have plenty to celebrate after Apple's big WWDC keynote, which revealed changes to how messaging between the two rivals will improve in iOS 18. But Apple is still holding out ...

Even if you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard that Drake surprise-dropped his seventh studio album, Honestly, Nevermind, on June 17, and you might’ve also heard that the track “Texts Go ...

iPhone users know that if they send a message to someone whose response comes in as a green text, they’ve reached an Android user. While at first thought it makes sense that a device using a competing ...

The Green Bubble Drama is dumb. Granted, like so many other stupid culture wars, it’s a decidedly American thing (that bleeds into a few other markets). In most of the world, the first thing everyone ...

Google-owned Android has teamed with comedian Ziwe Fumudoh for an effort asserting that the green text bubbles exchanged in messages between iPhone and non-iPhone devices are costing Apple adherents ...

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iPhone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble — Apple's way of showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of iMessage. SMS messaging has been around since 1992, and these ...

The Apple blue versus Android green messaging war isn’t about color. It is about membership and identity. All powerful brands rely on symbolic meaning drawing on universal and cultural archetypes that ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...