If I were Tim Cook, Apple would implement RCS over my dead body. Google have been telling everybody that Apple are “using bullying as a way to sell products” as

If I were Tim Cook, Apple would implement RCS over my dead body. Google have been telling everybody that Apple are “using bullying as a way to sell products” as a part of Google’s RCS PR. That’s an incredibly sleazy road to go down. How are you supposed to collaborate with an organisation doing this? I think Apple should open up messaging more, but I also totally support Apple treating RCS in particular as untouchable toxic waste because of this. If Google genuinely valued interoperability and wanted Apple to coöperate instead of using this as something to attack Apple over, then they wouldn’t have burnt that bridge so thoroughly. There’s no commandment from heaven anointing RCS as The One True Messaging Protocol. That’s just Google PR that wants you to think that. Even if Apple were to support something other than iMessage and SMS, it doesn’t necessarily follow that this must be RCS.