I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.
In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.
Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?
To be fair, I’ve heard people say the same thing about android. That the interface is infuriating to use. I think once one gets accustomed to one, the other is foreign enough to be annoying.
The problem with iPhones is that they are not flexible. Android devices can be customized (though it’s getting harder to do so effectively now) so they look, feel, and function differently. Meanwhile iPhones really feel like Apple has some incentive to make sure that you can only do exactly what they say you can do, which is not as much.
Which appeals to users who may accidentally change something or want something to be good and easy right out the gate. I wouldn’t recommend an android to someone very technically incompetent, and I prefer android to iOS any day
You can customize an Android device to more mimic an iPhone. You can’t do the opposite. This one example highlights the massive differences between the phones.
Absolutely. I’m an android user and prefer android over iOS. But customizability isn’t something everyone values.
I think they’re both infuriating. Especially when both try to copy each other. Phone UI designers must have all died out in some catastrophe in the early 2010’s.