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Comment by dkdbejwi383

16 days ago

Is green bubble iMessage or SMS?

iMessage is barely used in the UK, WhatsApp is the default messaging platform here

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spacebanana7  16 days ago

I'm in the UK pretty much only use iMessage/Snapchat.

I had a look at the stats though and you're probably correct about WhatsApp being default, although we do have a surprisingly diverse and competitive messenger market:

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/997945/most-used-messenge...

  • marliechiller  16 days ago

    Id be very interested to break that data down by age. I'd hypothesise people who grew up during the dawn of social media (late 00s, early 2010s), will be strongly aligned with whatsapp whereas younger generations might be more iMessage/snapchat whatever else is out there these days. The most interesting generation would be gen X'ers. I guess theyll be a jumble of all solutions, including SMS

    • spacebanana7  15 days ago

      Yeah it would be fascinating.

      I also suspect international social structures could play a big role. In the UK many people have friends & family that emigrated to iMessage counties like the US & Australia. But many have links to WhatsApp countries like India or even Telegram countries in Eastern Europe.

mewse  16 days ago

Green bubble is messages you sent via SMS (and so may have been charged by your carrier depending on your cellular plan)

Blue bubble is messages you sent via iMessage.

All incoming messages are grey, regardless of whether they were sent to you via SMS or iMessage.