the green-versus-blue bubble rivalry isn't frivolous. Here's Attorney General Merrick Garland. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MERRICK GARLAND: As any iPhone user who has ever seen a green text ...

Brian Chen: For more than a decade, smartphone users have confronted what’s known as the blue bubble versus green bubble disparity. When iPhone users text other iPhone users, their messages ...

You meet someone new and give them your number, only to receive a green (harsh, unwelcoming), not blue (peaceful, comforting), text bubble. If you deign to respond, you’re confronted with ...

Texting an Android user from an iPhone still isn’t as good as the blue-bubble life ... what kind of message you’re sending in the text box itself.) I haven’t noticed any reliability or ...

It's called Beeper Mini, and it's an Android app — not affiliated with Apple in any way — that lets you send blue-bubble text messages that were previously only available to Apple users.

However, the problems go way beyond simply the color of a text message ... group chats would love to see equality among blue and green bubbles 😊🙏,” Jeff Richards, a venture capitalist ...

"Those green messaging bubbles can feel like a barrier between you and other smartphone users," the company's post reads. "But we've found the solution." Bring on the blue bubbles. We believe in ...

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The colors visually differentiate iMessages, which appear in blue bubbles, from regular text messages, which show up in green bubbles. iMessage is Apple’s proprietary messaging service and only ...