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Blame Apple for this, not Google. Android supports RCS, iMessage does not. Apple is the last holdout. There's no good reason to have it this way other than loc
by cpuguy83 5y ago
Blame Apple for this, not Google.
Android supports RCS, iMessage does not.
Apple is the last holdout.
There's no good reason to have it this way other than lock-in.
- jacob019 5y ago100%, maybe Apple should be compelled to support standards when they choose not to for anticompetitive reasons.
- pmarreck 5y ago> Android supports RCS, iMessage does not. iMessage has existed in more or less its current form for over 10 years now. RCS took too long and basically gave this space to Apple. And Apple keeps adding features, such as bundling photos sent at once, showing where photos you have came from, and other things, not to mention things that STILL aren't on Android (nor whatsapp) like livephotos.
- km3r 5y agoNo one is saying apple needs to get rid of iMessage, just update the fallback from sms to rcs
- cpuguy83 5y agoThere is a standard that is significantly better than SMS and Apple has so far chosen to stay with SMS as the only fallback. Blame Apple that talking to anyone not on iMessage sucks. Also, the features you mention are all extremely new to iOS, I'm not sure what you mean by "still". - Sent from my iPhone
- pmarreck 5y agoLivephotos are NOT new... 2015. But sure, Apple could (maybe should) use RCS as a fallback instead of SMS.