Apple (AAPL) unveiled a number of updates to its textual content messaging system, permitting for simpler communication with Android (GOOG, GOOGL) telephone customers.
Yahoo Finance’s Pras Subramanian, Alexandra Canal, and Josh Schafer chat about this and the social “ramifications” of receiving a inexperienced bubble textual content from Android homeowners.
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Video Transcript
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Apple from the outdated iMessage, . That is, form of, an enormous deal, . Making an enormous U-turn right here on textual content messaging, making it simpler for iPhone and people Android customers to talk extra seamlessly. You are going to enable for us for stuff like learn receipts, photos, video to go in additional seamlessly. You are not going to have, kind of, the problems the place individuals get kicked out of group chats and issues like that.
However what’s not altering is the truth that in case you’re iPhone you are blue bubble, in case you’re not you are inexperienced. What do you guys take into consideration that?
JOSH SCHAFER: I believe the that the highest piece that is on the graphic proper now, textual content Android customers over Wi-Fi is the most important takeaway for me right here. That is what individuals love about iMessage, proper? You needn’t even have cell service. You possibly can go to say Europe and you may talk with somebody right here by simply being on Wi-Fi. And also you needn’t pay for the costly plan or no matter. So to have that’s advantageous for either side. And I might see why Apple would wish to try this.
ALEXANDRA CANAL: Yeah and it is a completely completely different messaging system, RCS versus SMS or MMS. So it makes these issues a lot simpler to do. And I do know I have been pissed off earlier than texting a non iPhone consumer. I do not know if it is despatched. You understand at the least when the blue says delivered, the textual content has despatched.
JOSH SCHAFER: Yeah.
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: I bought a query for each of you, guys. As younger single individuals, in case you bought matched with anyone whether or not on-line or not and also you texted them and you bought a inexperienced bubble again, would you be much less inclined?
ALEXANDRA CANAL: At first I would be, like–
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Or say I do not learn about this?
ALEXANDRA CANAL: I believe first I would query if the textual content did not undergo. I would be like, oh, no, did the textual content not undergo?
JOSH SCHAFER: Yeah, you are like, oh, they gave me a faux quantity.
ALEXANDRA CANAL: After which possibly I would risk–
JOSH SCHAFER: They gave me a faux quantity. Oh, they gave me a landline.
ALEXANDRA CANAL: –double texting.
JOSH SCHAFER: That might be my first thought, somebody gave me a landline quantity. If that is inexperienced, you are like, oh, that is not a cellular phone. You need it to– you need it to be blue if you sort it in, proper?
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Yeah.
ALEXANDRA CANAL: There’s a sure status–
JOSH SCHAFER: Each time a kind in a quantity
ALEXANDRA CANAL: –with the blue versus the inexperienced.
JOSH SCHAFER: –you need it to be blue.
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: It makes you are feeling protected.
ALEXANDRA CANAL: Makes you are feeling protected.
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: [INAUDIBLE] stated that too.
ALEXANDRA CANAL: Yeah, , I do not know although if I might flat out, like, reject somebody solely as a result of they’ve a inexperienced bubble–
JOSH SCHAFER: It has been a factor.
ALEXANDRA CANAL: –which I do know has been a factor, which is loopy.
