I kind of want the different colors for now. This will be unencrypted until we get universal E2EE that isn’t being gate kept by Google.

That’s a pretty important feature gap, and I want to know if something isn’t secure E2E.

It would be very Apple-y to let people set the bubble color. I hope they do the usual thing of finding a way forward without having to admit they were wrong. It's a bit annoying but better than nothing

Nah from their statement it sounds more like they’re only going to support the open standard and contribute to improving it in order to hurt Google and their proprietary implementation.

Apple already said they would NOT support any proprietary encryption, which indicates that they won’t support Google Jibe.