Google pokes enjoyable at Apple in lighthearted welcome to RCS

Google pokes enjoyable at Apple in lighthearted welcome to RCS
Google pokes enjoyable at Apple in lighthearted welcome to RCS


The world is therapeutic: iPhone now has third social gathering app retailer assist (within the EU), third social gathering NFC funds (additionally EU) and now RCS texting. To welcome the iPhone to the world of RCS Google launched a lighthearted video of a Pixel and an iPhone chatting about Apple’s current choice. The video is a part of Google’s #BestPhonesForever sequence on YouTube.Within the video the Pixel and iPhone speak about how the 2 have had “communication points” up to now. In addition they acknowledge the iPhone lastly deciding to change to RCS, which the Pixel reiterates is the fashionable customary for texting that different telephones have been utilizing for some time.

The video then mentions the advantages of RCS on iPhone, particularly the flexibility to ship a lot greater high quality media between Android and iOS. Google didn’t go up an opportunity to have the iPhone admit it had different issues to work on and ended the video with instantly welcoming the iPhone to a “new period of texting”.

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If solely real-life on-line discussions may very well be this civil. | Video credit score — Google

There are, after all, different advantages to Apple lastly accepting RCS on the iPhone. These embrace:

  • Typing and browse receipts
  • Improved group chats
  • Reacting to texts
  • Sending GIFs

Apart from the aforementioned prime quality media sharing, end-to-end encryption can be an essential one. Nevertheless, encrypted chats aren’t accessible on iOS simply but.

The introduction of RCS to iOS primarily advantages areas that don’t primarily use third social gathering apps like WhatsApp for communication. For instance, the U.S., the place there’s a stigma in opposition to Android in colleges and sure different locations the place youthful folks congregate. Folks even generally blamed low high quality media on Android, not realizing that it was Apple that had been refusing to undertake RCS.

Numerous optimistic modifications are occurring between Android and iOS communication. Nevertheless, the blue bubble and inexperienced bubble nonsense nonetheless stays to differentiate Android customers in a chat.

Regardless of Apple’s greatest efforts, intervention from the EU has made a number of the corporate’s prized traditions crumble. A minimum of within the EU Apple’s walled backyard isn’t very walled anymore. Welcome to RCS, iPhone.

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