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Talking with some a boy at my daughters school, I learned even more about how deep the iMessage lock-in is for US teens. A brief thread on US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In:
I was talking to one of my daughter's friends, male 16 yrs old, and I noticed he made the switch to iPhone from Android. Having spoken with him before I knew he was an "Android guy" by self-identification, so I was shocked he made the jump.
When I asked him why he made the jump, he sounded a bit remorse. It all came down to being left out of group chats. His quote verbatim, "we would start a new group chat, and the group would realize I was the reason it was green, and they would start another group chat without me
I had a hard time believing this because often these group chats are used for school, as a part of a class. Kids will have a group chat just for that class with their friends to talk about homework, projects, etc. However, he assured me he was being left out of group chats.
Specifically, he was being left out of group chats because he was on Android and turned the thread green. Hard to believe sometimes, until you hear it, but the iMessage lock-in is real. Ultimately there were things he liked about iPhone, but he did miss his Pixel 2. The end
Well those kids aren’t leaving if they will be shunned from group chats if they switch. Social lock in perhaps.
Is it because it’s green and not blue? Or are they bothered by something else? Using up SMS? (is that still a thing?) Not being e2e encrypted? (surprise if it’s that)
The green bubble stigma is part of it for sure, but for me at least, part of that stigma has to do with the functionality you lose when you switch to SMS. The SMS protocol makes "tap backs" and stickers and other stuff work differently (and worse).
This is so strange from a UK perspective. Over here we use WhatsApp so the power of the blue bubble is basically zero...
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