In a Twitter post, Android and Google called out Apple to fix its update to newer messaging service, RCS. As it turns out, the issue of poor quality media exchanged between iOS and Android devices is actually caused by iPhones and not Android phones as we have been made to believe.
While we don’t know what must have transpired behind closed doors, Google is not being subtle about this at all. The official Android Twitter account asked, “Texting a friend with a different phone than you should be no problem… Right? @Apple?” It also used the hashtag #GetTheMessage, which its parent company also adopted in its quoted Tweet.
Texting a friend with a different phone than you should be no problem… Right? @Apple? #GetTheMessage pic.twitter.com/Qa1TDkmUSK
— Android (@Android) August 9, 2022
In the above video, Google’s smartphone arm mentions RCS, which means rich communication services, a service meant to replace the SMS and MMS tech.
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Apple is still holding on to the ancient tech and refusing to adopt RCS, according to Google’s accusation. The iPhone makers really have no good reason keep rejecting RCS apart from encouraging more iPhone to iPhone interactions. As Google rightly points out, with RCS being the universal message exchange platform, there will be no need to restrict ‘proper’ messaging to phones from the same maker.
Also, sharing messages from RCS-enabled devices to SMS-powered gadgets leaves them without encryption and no read receipt.
In addition, the security claim is moot as RCS also provided end-to-end encryption, which ensures that communication stays between both parties.
Following the post, media outlets have reacted wildly to the rare challenge. However, Apple had not responded by the time this article was published.
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