Hah, I didn&#x27;t even get &quot;green bubbles&quot; reference until I came back here just now :-) (I&#x27;m not an iOS user.)<p>Some of the downside about text is that it often shows unpredictable behavior, especially when it involves going over carrier&#x27;s gateway to other networks, or involving some non-ordinary systems like Google Voice. Though, it seems to be improving now, but I used to see anything from garbled messages to complete silence, and it often exhibited different behavior between combinations of different sender and receiver. (For instance A, and B in same network might have worked OK, but A to some user in another network being able to receive, or sometimes being able to receive one way, but corrupts for the other way around, etc.)<p>Google Voice until recently (maybe a year ago?) or so, couldn&#x27;t do any group MMS at all, and would simply get ignored. One blamed would be one who deviates from standards, but my most pet peeve of SMS&#x2F;MMS is that it offers very little to no error indications when something goes wrong.<p>I actually manage a volunteer team of 30 or so with varying types of devices, where one to many communication is highly needed, and I find messaging solution very complicated problem to solve. (And yes, I&#x27;m likely resort to having like 2 to 3 apps to get it done...)