I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.
In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.
Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?
Even if the “vast majority of people” don’t know how to download an app (I doubt this is true), those people can’t set up a phone either. So whoever’s setting it up for them would download whatever app everyone uses to communicate.
Non tech literate people don’t just use defaults. They use whatever’s easiest for them to use. A lot of the time, that means defaults, but for messaging it means what everyone else is using.
Also messaging on apps is cheaper than sms in most countries, so even the least tech literate people can see the benefit of not using sms.