Apple uses consumer psychology to make it feel like the "cool" brand, which the DOJ says created a "social stigma" toward non ...

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).

And then the backward slope begins. The bubble pops at the top. Green will index within the mainstream and become ubiquitous. It's a fad and will vanish back to the margins of our society. A new ...

After years of forcing all users to message in the same old green speech bubbles, WhatsApp is now opening up its interface to ...

It also begs the question: with all of those features finally adopted, will the green bubble stigma finally get tossed out with them? I, for one, wouldn't count on it. According to a recent ...