This article describes how to change the color of text bubbles on an Android device ... Your options include: Deuteranomaly (Green-red) Protanomaly (Red-green) Tritanomaly (Blue -yellow) Greyscale ...

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).

iOS has long stigmatized Android users by choosing not to support standard features in text messaging ... features finally ...

One thing that is definitely not "cool," it seems, is having a green text bubble. On Apple's iPhones, instead of conversations appearing in the typical gray and blue, text messages from non-Apple ...