[timmg]

The thing that bothers me is that Apple’s actions hurt iPhone owners. Making it harder for them to communicate with non-iPhones is a bad experience. Intentionally making their product worse to encourage lock-in is anti-user.

I’m oddly surprised that iPhone owners are ok with this.

[soerxpso]

Most iPhone owners are unaware that it's intentional on Apple's part, and are lead to believe that other devices just aren't sophisticated enough to make the bubbles blue.

[timmg]

That's a pretty good theory/explanation, tbh.