Might or not it’s? Is Apple lastly relenting and letting Android customers frolic in its walled backyard? 9to5Mac studies that an Apple spokesperson has revealed that RCS assist is on the docket for subsequent yr’s iPhone launch. Meaning extra parity for Android customers’ messages to iPhone wielders.
To be clear, enabling RCS on the Apple aspect is not going to enable iMessage for non-iOS customers. (Until you’re utilizing a Nothing Telephone, that’s.) Android customers will proceed to be Inexperienced Bubbles. However a minimum of their iPhone-using family and friends will see emoji reactions and message receipts, serving to take the sting off the life-style they’ve chosen for themselves.
The Apple spokesperson stated the iPhone will assist RCS by adopting the GSM Affiliation’s RCS Common Profile. Apple writes:
We imagine RCS Common Profile will provide a greater interoperability expertise when in comparison with SMS or MMS. This may work alongside iMessage, which can proceed to be the very best and most safe messaging expertise for Apple customers.
There isn’t a point out of Google or the Android working system in Apple’s assertion to 9to5Mac. The Cupertino firm even doubled down on the truth that RCS isn’t end-to-end encrypted like iMessage. Apple nonetheless believes its resolution is “the very best and most safe” for customers.
I reached out to the corporate to ask for affirmation of this assertion. I’ll let you already know if I hear again.
I’ll take it. I’ll take no matter scraps Apple dishes out to make my life simpler as I chat with iPhone buddies. That is the very best compromise Apple might provide in its place, and it helps soften among the blow of fragmentation between Android ecosystems. On the finish of the day, we’re all simply attempting to ship a message to somebody. There shouldn’t be communication limitations.