Google’s Android group has launched a new website to advocate for Apple to adopt the RCS text messaging standard in iMessage, which would significantly improve texting across devices (via CNET).
The campaign focuses on Apple’s “green bubble” experience when messages are delivered over the SMS and MMS standards, such as the lack of typing indicators, and compressed images.
RCS includes many features seen in iMessage as well as chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal, including typing indicators, encrypted messages, and higher-quality photo sending.
Texting a friend with a different phone than you should be no problem… Right? @Apple? #GetTheMessage pic.twitter.com/Qa1TDkmUSK
— Android (@Android)
The website marks the latest effort by Google to encourage Apple to use the RCS text standard, which is currently an Android-only text messaging service.
While RCS now has the support of the major US mobile carriers, without adoption within Apple’s Messages app or within devices like basic phones, it’s essentially an “iMessage” for only Android phones.
The campaign website also suggests cross-platform chat apps like Signal and Meta’s WhatsApp as options to get a more universal texting experience, as opposed to trying to move people into another Google-owned service.
The move comes just ahead of the final iOS 16 release, which adds the ability to edit and unsend messages that are sent over iMessage.
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So I’m supposed to take advice about the blue bubble vs the green bubble from a guy with pink hair – okay…
eeeeeeasy there batman. Like Google said, this isn’t the 90s any more. Making fun of how people look in this day and age results in having your tiny pee pee cut off in front of everyone…friends & family included.
LOL and people wonder why we are in the mess we are in…
(FTR its Space Ghost)
It’s only a problem for insecure android users that feel left out.
Google should get themselves added to some list of protected groups. Then the D.I.E. industry would do the fighting for them, and turn a tidy profit doing so.