In Apple's Messages app starting with iOS 7, a green bubble surrounding the text means the incoming message came from a non-Apple phone that uses the standard SMS/MMS text messaging system (see SMS).

Michael Anderson, a tech consultant in San Francisco, considers himself an unapologetic Android user. It's something that would come up quite a bit in his love life. When he was single and using ...

Blue bubbles versus green bubbles. In texting it's the difference between iPhone owners and Android phone users. Green bubble people can be made to feel like unwelcome party crashers. Blue bubbles ...

Putting your iPhone’s Messages app on your Mac and/or iPad was a great move on Apple’s part. If you’re working on your Macor watching Netflix on your iPad, it’s a much more convenient to keep up with ...

While texting technology will soon get better, the “blue versus green bubble” disparity is far from over. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author ...