Still waiting for the massive blue/green bubble fine. One of the most disgusting yet effective practices -- build a function into the phone hardware to socially ostracize anyone who doesn't have the same brand of phone. The DMA was supposed to put a stop to it.
It's not about the color. The color is just an indicator of degraded performance. Apple intentionally degrades the quality of communications pretty much across the board for Android. The main impact this has is that when you add an Android phone to a group chat, everyone in that group chat loses their functionality, even if they are only trying to talk to each other. So what happens is that people just won't add you to their group chats if you have a green bubble. Since most of teens' social life these days takes place "in the groupchat", this amounts social exclusion. Teens don't want to be socially excluded, so they beg their parents for an iPhone. Parents don't want their teens to be socially excluded, so they pony up $1500 for one.
The thing is that Android has had the capability to do all the things iPhone can do for a long time, at least the important stuff, but Apple just refuses to integrate with Android on this. Instead they would rather keep Android performance on iPhone in a degraded state, and rely on users blaming it on Android (you have the green bubble so it's your fault) rather than Apple (you have the green bubble because my phone can't talk to you). As long as regulatory agencies keep letting Apple get away with this strategy, and users keep refusing to blame Apple for their iPhone turning into a potato when it has to talk to Android phones, Apple will keep doing it, because it's an extremely powerful strategy.
