> This is not Apple opening up iMessage to other platforms. Which I never claimed. > Sorry, but iMessage is not RCS. The only person who keeps repeating "iMe

> This is not Apple opening up iMessage to other platforms. Which I never claimed. > Sorry, but iMessage is not RCS. The only person who keeps repeating "iMessage is RCS" is yourself. > You can claim they’re the same as much as you’d like, but their only similarities is that iMessage will send messages to RCS and support the native carrier chosen RCS features. Less than 1% of iphone users even know what e2ee is. Less than .01% disable that icloud backup thing that makes iMessage e2ee useless for them and their contacts. If iOS has a messaging system that is capable of things imessage today is capable of and is interoperable with android then the only people for whom the separation between imessage and RCS matters is pedantic nerds, no offence.