What I would ultimately want from all this is that SMS goes away. That we get something better, I know there's that new protocol the IEEE have been working on,

What I would ultimately want from all this is that SMS goes away. That we get something better, I know there's that new protocol the IEEE have been working on, and there's RCS. I don't care which, or anything else is used, as long as it's platform independent, secure, seamless, and enables all the features of modern messaging platforms. Wife has an iPhone I have an android. One of the big problems with that downgrade is it's really one sided. An example. If I send her a photo, or video, google will send a link to it instead, unique to that message.. so she will see the full sized video or photo. If she sends me a photo or video, it uses MMS... And it's potato quality. I would settle to have apple solve that problem. Because it's solely on apple's side to solve that. But I would ultimately like there to be a successor to SMS/MMS... And soon.