Its day 4 of Gizmodos March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time!

Perhaps most importantly, it weeds out non-users by displaying them as green bubbles.

But just because its become a status symbol doesnt mean iMessage is a bad messenger.

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It has plenty of features like memoji, location sharing, reactions, apps, and stickers.

At the time of release, cryptography expertscalled it overkill in a good way.

Taking on iMessage, we have one of the only games on our bracket.

Graphic: Google

Graphic: Google

But its incredibly difficult tap-tap-tap gameplay was fresh and addictive.

It was so addictive that its developer Dong Nguyen felt guilty and pulled it from app stores.

The gold rush was similar to all the copycats that followed the release of Wordle.

Here are the nominees. Choose your fighter.

Here are the nominees. Choose your fighter.Graphic: Vicky Leta.

Today, people stillpay a premium on eBayto buy old phones with the original Flappy Bird installed.

So, reader, whatll it be?

Should the toxic blue bubbles advance to the next round or should the game that doesnt exist soar ahead?

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Voting has closed and it was a tight race but iMessage goes to the next round.

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