[mrzimmerman]

Why is this even an issue? The green bubble signifies an SMS/MMS message (or a non Apple Messages, message). I don’t think any non-Apple users are upset that their chat is in a green bubble as opposed to blue.

It would have been nice if an open replacement standard for SMS/MMS had been introduced as network bandwidth improved over the last two decades, but it didn’t and instead we have a bunch of competing messaging services sending through our phone data plans. I’ve got Telegram, WhatsApp, Messages, and Google Chat to handle all the simple text/image/video messages I get from various people, and none of them standout as particularly better, I just have friends or colleagues on one of them.