In Messages on iPhone , you can now use SMS, RCS, end-to-end encrypted RCS, and iMessage. Sure, sending media to Android is better, but everything else is more confusing and frustrating than ever.

Sometimes a clever marketing trick or feature highlight can lead to deeply rooted societal divides. What started as a way to show users that they were not using iMessage and potentially being nickeled and dimed for each SMS is now, annoyingly, a kind of status symbol.

The simple act of texting has become a divisive and sometimes irritating aspect of using a smartphone. Whether you care about technology or not, if you're an iPhone user, you've at the least subconsciously reacted to a green bubble text.

For the Android user, it's a different story. When they text an iPhone user, most of the time it feels like texting anyone.…