I love my 15 Pro Max and have been an iPhone user for 3 years now.
I am so tired of texting to Android phones because SMS really sucks. I want Apple to support RCS. Not for the Android people but for the iPhone people. It will make our lives better.
How do we get Apple to understand it is for the betterment of their users more than it is for the Android users?
this is the right answer. Feels like a lot of “but we have RCS!” talk but if you pull on that thread even for a seconds it’s still a total mess.
iMessage and Lighting are/were great examples of the value you could get by letting the company that makes your phone, develop messaging and proprietary ports. Until USB-C became more prevalent, the Lightning port was miles ahead of USB-A or micro-USB. iMessage was also miles ahead of any messaging platform. Miles. Ahead.
We’re im a shifting point now though where universal standards have caught up are catching up, so those arguments became a little thinner.
With that in mind… iMessage still has an operational edge still because it is so un-fragmented.
Even if RCS became a standard tomorrow on all Androids, the exact fragmentation that makes Android customizable, will slow its ability to ever be as streamlined as iMessage. Plus, I’d rather my shit go through Apple’s servers than Google’s if you’re gonna give me the choice. And I say that as a decade long Android user and former Pixel user.