> It has rolled out now though Not really. Google is giving the middle finger to carriers who implemented Universal Profile on their own rather than use Jibe.

> It has rolled out now though Not really. Google is giving the middle finger to carriers who implemented Universal Profile on their own rather than use Jibe. And we now have fragmentation even before there was time for significant adoption. That said, your points about iMessage are right. I believe RCS support might actually help iMessage in some markets, since SMS fallback is precisely the reason people won't use it.