After many taunts and jibes, Apple has acquired Google’s message, and it’s ‘fixing’ the texting on iPhones, because it adopts the RCS (Wealthy Communication Service) customary for texting subsequent 12 months. And nobody else may very well be happier than Google, because it ran a marketing campaign for years for Apple to #GetTheMessage.
Presently, texting with an Android consumer by means of iMessagehas a number of limitations, together with disorganised group chats and decrease decision for picture and video sharing.RCS resolves these points and introduces different advantages, comparable to location-sharing and browse receipts between iPhones andAndroids.
Adopting RCS goes to raise many of those limitations, and Google couldn’t welcome the transfer extra.
“Everybody deserves to speak with one another in methods which can be fashionable and safe, it doesn’t matter what telephone they’ve. That is why we’ve got labored intently with the cellular business to speed up the adoption of RCS, and we’re glad to see Apple take their first step at present by approaching board to embrace RCS. We welcome Apple’s participation in our ongoing work with GSMA to evolve RCS and make messaging extra equitable and safe, and sit up for working with them to implement this on iOS in a method that works properly for everybody,” mentioned a Google spokesperson in a press release.
In a submit on the social platform X (previously Twitter), Google’s Android deal with mentioned, “We imagine everybody deserves to speak inclusively it doesn’t matter what telephone they’ve. That is one enormous step nearer to doing that. Excited for Apple to embrace RCS, the fashionable business customary, to assist make messaging higher for everybody.
Whereas it might appear a win for Google and different Android producers, it’s not that simple. Nicely, the blue and inexperienced bubbles are right here to remain, and RCS is not going to exchange iMessage; as Apple argues, iMessage continues to be safer and way more personal. The RCS on iPhones is not going to assist end-to-end encryption, because it does on Android. Nonetheless, it hopes to work with the GSM Affiliation so as to add encryption to the usual.
Nonetheless, a win continues to be a win since Apple is lastly ‘fixing’ the messaging, and people with Android telephones can have a greater texting expertise with their iPhone mates.
Presently, texting with an Android consumer by means of iMessagehas a number of limitations, together with disorganised group chats and decrease decision for picture and video sharing.RCS resolves these points and introduces different advantages, comparable to location-sharing and browse receipts between iPhones andAndroids.
Adopting RCS goes to raise many of those limitations, and Google couldn’t welcome the transfer extra.
“Everybody deserves to speak with one another in methods which can be fashionable and safe, it doesn’t matter what telephone they’ve. That is why we’ve got labored intently with the cellular business to speed up the adoption of RCS, and we’re glad to see Apple take their first step at present by approaching board to embrace RCS. We welcome Apple’s participation in our ongoing work with GSMA to evolve RCS and make messaging extra equitable and safe, and sit up for working with them to implement this on iOS in a method that works properly for everybody,” mentioned a Google spokesperson in a press release.
In a submit on the social platform X (previously Twitter), Google’s Android deal with mentioned, “We imagine everybody deserves to speak inclusively it doesn’t matter what telephone they’ve. That is one enormous step nearer to doing that. Excited for Apple to embrace RCS, the fashionable business customary, to assist make messaging higher for everybody.
Whereas it might appear a win for Google and different Android producers, it’s not that simple. Nicely, the blue and inexperienced bubbles are right here to remain, and RCS is not going to exchange iMessage; as Apple argues, iMessage continues to be safer and way more personal. The RCS on iPhones is not going to assist end-to-end encryption, because it does on Android. Nonetheless, it hopes to work with the GSM Affiliation so as to add encryption to the usual.
Nonetheless, a win continues to be a win since Apple is lastly ‘fixing’ the messaging, and people with Android telephones can have a greater texting expertise with their iPhone mates.
