Don't take this the wrong way, but only slashdot-level-nerds care about lock in.

Fine by me! Literally the only person I regularly get green bubbles from is my Mom. And yes, it's really annoying when my iPhone siblings send videos of their kids, and they end up super low res because of her phone.

I'm gay. My experience is that apple usage is much higher among LGBT.

When I switched to android for a year, it was one of the reasons I switched back. When all your friends have iPhones, groups texts get kind of nasty when you add an android to the mix, and I don't want to be the one who causes the green bubbles). Things like "a friend has hearted the message "blah blah" " ... it's just kinda gross. Plus, you can't sent a high def video from an iPhone to Android using iMessage. You HAVE to use something like whatsapp or something, otherwise the video gets downconverted to a postage stamp size. And if just 1 person in a group chat has android, then EVERYONE gets the postage stamp size. It's actually pretty annoying.