Sounds like Google is just crying that its Messaging platforms have been more of a failure than Apple's (at least in the US, since iMessages is rarely used outs

Sounds like Google is just crying that its Messaging platforms have been more of a failure than Apple's (at least in the US, since iMessages is rarely used outside the US anyway). Google has had plenty of messengers, none of which interoperates with third parties either. But now they complain that Apples does the same that Google has always done. And their cry is for Apple to adopt RCS, a broken standard pushed mostly by Google and partners. I'll rarely defend Apple (and I'm not really doing so here either), but it seems like Google is trying to gain some sympathy here, and just trying to spin the facts in a light where they sound like the victim -- when they've had the exact same behaviour as Apple since forever.