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- The DOJ is suing Apple, accusing the tech giant of anticompetitive and monopolistic practices.
- The suit accuses Apple of making iPhone users' texting experience with Android users worse.
- Google has railed against the green message bubbles for years.
Google could score a major win out of the Justice Department's sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple: getting rid of those janky green messages from Android users.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland explained in a news conference Thursday that when an iPhone user messaged a non-iPhone user, the non-iPhone user's texts showed up as green bubbles in Apple Messages. In addition to that, he said, the non-iPhone users' videos become pixelated and grainy, their messages are not encrypted, and they cannot edit messages or see typing bubbles.