Apple is also a problem. Do you think if Google/carriers had the perfect messaging open standard ready to go they would bother implementing it? I doubt it. Tim

Apple is also a problem. Do you think if Google/carriers had the perfect messaging open standard ready to go they would bother implementing it? I doubt it. Tim Cook's response to someone asking for RCS support to chat with their mother was to "Buy your mom an iPhone". It's in Apple's best interest to not bother with things like this or half ass it so long as their own solution looks good. They don't support MTP commonly used by Android devices (and others) to talk to computers either for example. Another example is NFC pairing. NFC pairing is great and has been around for years, iPhones have had NFC for years. Apple never bothered but implemented "quick" pairing with the release of the Airpods (honestly its jankier too but hey...).