Right, Elon?Īnyway, if you're willing to look past the whole bubble situation, then I suggest using the Google Messages web app on Mac to see and reply to all the text messages that you receive on your phone. I'd love to see the day when Google and Apple shrug it all off and let us have the best of both worlds, but I think I have a better chance of going to Mars. This is also why the texts sent via iMessage show up as blue bubbles on iPhones, while their SMS/MMS counterparts appear in green. This means an Android user's texts to someone with an iPhone show up as an SMS or MMS message. You can't get iMessage on Android, and Apple won't adopt RCS, either. It's 2022, and both Google and Apple are still going back and forth over a convoluted messaging system. Messaging: The blue and green bubble dilemma But there are ways to make things work if you don't want to give up your trusty Android phone just to have a seamless experience. Apple still favors its own ecosystem, so you won't have the same consistent experience iPhone and Mac users enjoy.

If you know a thing or two about Apple, then you're probably aware of how challenging it can be to make its Mac computers play nice with Android phones.

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