I don’t care about green bubbles or really any of the iMessage junk, I will just be happy to send a video or image to an iPhone user without it getting downsampled into trash.

Hopefully that’s the case.

I get around it now by sharing a Google photos link to the image or video…

Oh on a caveat like they did with the USB C port? RCS is now standard but imessage is now a subscription service.

This is terrible news.

I hope they don’t give those Android users blue bubbles

Fuck regulators. These companies work for the consumer, not the government.

I really hope this ends up being true. Apple, while I think their hardware is fantastic, has used their leverage over the US phone market to hold the industry back in a lot of ways. With the move to USB-C and hopefully moving to RCS, we can all be on the same page with connection and communication, and their hardware can start speaking for itself rather than feeling like they need to trap people in their ecosystem or else get the dreaded “green bubbles”.

I bet they’re doing it because they knew the EU was going to force them to anyway and they’d rather get ahead of the regulation. Something between that and Google publicly calling them out for it.

Does this allow us to manage group messaging between android and apple or will we still have to use whatsapp, discord, GroupMe, etc

Can’t wait to see the new message bubble color “Urine yellow” to ostracize other users even more.

But will it still be green is the question

Anybody think they did this in response to the nothing phone news?

About time, I am sure this is not voluntarily.

Europe ain’t messing around with privacy…

But is it the GSMA-standard RCS? That could be an issue because Google added quite a bit of its own proprietary code to the RCS app used on Android phones. The Android RCS app has to be back in GSMA compliance to work with the update to the iOS Messages app.

About Time!