Samsung joins Google to pressurize Apple into RCS adoption

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It looks like Samsung is joining Google in pressurizing Apple to support RCS. The company has released a short video that shows how people might feel when they're left out of group chats when their phone doesn't support Apple's iMessage. The video shows not to distinguish between blue bubbles and green bubbles.

Samsung suggests Apple discriminates against people who don't have an iPhone

In its new 30-second video, Samsung uses the Romeo and Juliet angle, in which Romeo is Android and Juliet is iOS. It indicates that “green bubbles and blue bubbles want to be together,” hinting that Apple discriminates between them and creates a divide between Android and iOS users. While Apple supports SMS, it hasn't adopted RCS, which Google developed to replace the age-old SMS standard.

RCS supports a lot of advanced and modern messaging features, such as group chat, read/sent receipts, the ability to send high-resolution images and videos, stickers, modern emojis, voice messages, and more. Apple isn't ready to adopt RCS, though, as it would loosen its grip on the ecosystem, which holds back millions of Apple users.

These tactics aren't working, and it doesn't look like Apple will ever adopt RCS

Google has been trying to pressure Apple to adopt RCS, but it doesn't look like that will happen at all unless there is some anti-monopoly or antitrust ruling against Apple. Last year, when a user told Tim Cook he couldn't send some videos to his mother due to the iPhone not supporting RCS, Tim Cook said, “Buy your mom an iPhone.“

Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

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First Samsung device: T100

Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S21 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.

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Samsung joins Google to pressurize Apple into RCS adoption

Samsung suggests Apple discriminates against people who don't have an iPhone

These tactics aren't working, and it doesn't look like Apple will ever adopt RCS

Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

[email protected]

First Samsung device: T100

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