We've been neutral on Beeper so far, but an interview with the company's CEO clearly demonstrates that the company is wasting users' time and possibly causing security issues as it keeps running into ...

The green bubble stigma faced by Android users who send messages to their friends with iPhones is real—even the U.S. government acknowledges it. “Many non-iPhone users… experience social stigma, ...

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Apple's Messages app can do far more than just blue and green speech bubbles plus a few photos and videos - it now also lets you add a whole range of colourful effects to messages. The problem is that ...

Update (12/11/23) - Apple has announced it shut down Beeper Mini and other third-party applications that enabled Android devices to use the iMessage service and get those coveted blue bubbles iPhone ...

The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general sued Apple for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws on Thursday. The 88-page complaint lays out the government’s case against Apple, ...

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of ...

Can an Android OEM really just hack its way into Apple’s iMessage? That is the hard-to-believe plan from upstart phone manufacturer “Nothing,” which says the new “Nothing Chats” will allow users to ...

The makers of the Nothing Phone (2) are launching Nothing Chats, which lets Android users who share their Apple ID send messages in the iPhone's regular blue bubbles. Sunbird says that an Apple ...

When asked how he feels about green bubbles on his iPhone, Barack Obama indicates he couldn’t care less. Google has been highlighting iMessage’s problems with Android phones a lot recently. Obama also ...