Why is my group text message starting a new thread on iphones?

[AC Question]

I have a GS5 and use AT&T messages. Im in a group text with some friends and the iphone users say that whenever i respond, it puts the message i send and starts a new thread on my phone.

What gives? I would like to continue to blame this on them, but if it's a droid or att messages problem i wanna know.

Thanks

 

[Rukbat]

iPhones kinda-sorta handle SMS messages, but not in the standard way. Apple claims to be working on the incompatibility problem, but life iisn't eternal, so I doubt that we'll ever really see a solution. (They probably told one of the janitors that he should try to think about it at east once a year - that's how they "fix" things they don't consider a problem, and since iMessage works, they don't care if it's not compatible with the rest of the world. They once promised to never break any software written for the Mac if it followed their rules. They broke that promise not once, but twice. Remember the Jobs rules: 1-I'm right. 2-If I'm wrong, see rule 1. Being dead falls under rule 2.)