I have recently heard from family in the US that it's a thing over there that some people who use Apple products who refuse to text with people who don't because of the blue/green chat bubble thing. Is that true?
I'm willing to bet that's mostly urban legend. Anecdotally speaking, I have extended family who use Apple products and who text our Android-using family.
It’s real but it’s real at the level of people who wouldn’t let you hang out with them if you didn’t have the right brand of shoes or looked down on you for not having a BMW/Lexus. RCS support in iOS 18 will get rid of the only legitimate concern but I’m betting those people will either continue unchanged or pick a different signifier. Your life is always better off without people like that.