Samsung joins Google in pressuring Apple to support RCS messaging so that iOS-Android chats can avoid using SMS/MMS.
By now, you know the deal. When an Android user joins a group chat made up of iOS users, all of the great features of iMessage go away. There is no more end-to-end encryption, no more high-quality images, typing indicators disappear, read receipts are no more, support for larger messages goes away, and text is found in a green bubble instead of a blue bubble. Just last month Google made fun of Apple by running a fake ad for an Apple product called the iPager.The goal of the ad was to point out that Apple still uses outdated SMS/MMS texting when a message is sent to an Android user. Google is trying to pressure Apple into supporting Rich Communication Services (RCS) which delivers iMessage-like features to Android users when they are in a chat with other RCS users. Guess what happens when an iOS user joins a chat that was previously made up of just RCS users.
