[word-reader]

It's not just about it "being green", the contrast between the text and the background is lower with the green SMS bubbles than the blue iMessage bubbles, making it harder to read. I guarantee you if the SMS bubbles were a shade or two darker green people wouldn't care as much.

[anchpop]

Its pretty interesting that Apple, who pride themselves so much on form, chose that undeniably unpleasant shade of green.

[tguedes]

I think its on purpose. Associate an unpleasant color with Android so if you ever switch from iPhone to Android you know you will show up as the same unpleasant green on their phones.

[Terretta]

It’s not Android, it’s SMS. Text an iPhone user who isn’t signed into iCloud, it uses SMS, and is green.

[ghettoimp]

Does that... ever happen? As a casual iPhone user, I don't remember ever signing into or out of iCloud for anything. I assume I'm probably signed in at all times?

[jdminhbg]

That shade of green pre-dates the introduction of iMessage blue. It's the original default for SMS/MMS from when that's all that iPhones suppoorted.

[n8henry]

It's very much by design.

[Terretta]

In the beginning, the mnemonic was green texts cost money, blue texts are unlimited like blue sky.

Also that green was popular then.