I don’t really understand this issue. I regularly group text with Android and iOS users without problems.
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I’m in England, my longest friend has an Android device. I still text him in the Messages app. He’ll use WhatsApp when sending pics and links, but I’ll text him normally always, I prefer that over WhatsApp.
It’s really not a big deal. Use whatever app you wish. Apple doesn’t need to support RCS
They should make a iMessage app for android
Problem is there isn’t 1 unifying RCS. A lot of carriers have their own version which can’t communicate with other versions. So which should Apple adopt? Now it seems like Google’s version is taking off the most which isn’t surprising since they own the android. However it requires all messaging flow through Google’s servers. Do you really think Apple with its privacy advertisements are gonna allow ALL of their users messages to flow through Google’s servers? Do Apple users even want all their messages to flow through Google servers?
this is the right answer. Feels like a lot of "but we have RCS!" talk but if you pull on that thread even for a seconds it's still a total mess.
iMessage and Lighting are/were great examples of the value you could get by letting the company that makes your phone, develop messaging and proprietary ports. Until USB-C became more prevalent, the Lightning port was miles ahead of USB-A or micro-USB. iMessage was also miles ahead of any messaging platform. Miles. Ahead.
We're im a shifting point now though where universal standards have caught up are catching up, so those arguments became a little thinner.
With that in mind... iMessage still has an operational edge still because it is so un-fragmented.
Even if RCS became a standard tomorrow on all Androids, the exact fragmentation that makes Android customizable, will slow its ability to ever be as streamlined as iMessage. Plus, I'd rather my shit go through Apple's servers than Google's if you're gonna give me the choice. And I say that as a decade long Android user and former Pixel user.
Well, using iPhone in brazil for a decade. Never used RCS, but nobody here uses iMessage. To me it’s very annoying when I need to send a sms message bc system forces to send via iMessage. But I don’t want to disable iMessage