Possibly, but there is zero reason apple should not have supported rcs to begin with. SMS should have been put out of its misery long ago. Rcs was created because Apple would not play nice with android. Encrypted texting should be available to all. By default.

LOL... Nothing is, well, nothing. A nascent company with next to zero customers (relatively speaking). Apple doesn't care about them and the decision to add RCS was definitely not related to this.