Green Bubble Emoji Reactions From Android Users Now Show Up Properly on iPhones

[Aoligei]

Android user here. I would never use a message app by Google. Why do you need it, if you already have WhatsApp, Threema, Signal, Skype and Telegram? RCS is just a trick by Google to collect even more information.

I prefer Google collect my information rather than X numbers of companies take my information…

Plus, I don’t have WhatsApp, Threema, Signal, Skype, telegram, instagram, Snapchat etc. installed on my phone. Why would anyone wants to deal with these mess? I would rather take one app that communicates with everyone.

 

[cocky jeremy]

I turned it off immediately. If you use an Android you deserve to have crappy messaging.

 

[Biro]

Not sure how buggy it is, however most of my Android user contacts, don't have it switched on, so how it works is really irrelevant

The issue for me is that if someone I know has RCS turned off, our messages to each other should still get through as SMS texts. In fact, sometimes they do but often the messages just disappear into the ether. I can’t have that and so RCS is now turned off.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

So you suggest the use of Facebook on your message as the better solution to Google. How is that a difference?

Facebook also collects a lot of data, but it is always good to spread your conversation. So no company can create your whole social graph. And if you communicate with close friends or family, you should use Threema or Signal.

Plus, I don’t have WhatsApp, Threema, Signal, Skype, telegram, instagram, Snapchat etc. installed on my phone. Why would anyone wants to deal with these mess? I would rather take one app that communicates with everyone.

Managing multiple Apps is not a problem. If someone messages me, I get a notification and if I click on that notification, the right app will open.

 

[Fatboy71]

I find that most of my Android users in the UK, haven't got RCS switched on, that's really the biggest problem, until it's switched on by default for both iPhone and Android users, it's never going to works as intended and replace services like WhatsApp

I know one of my Android friends didn't have it switched on. I often see him in the gym and we got talking about some issue on his phone (he is not very tech savvy) and he asked me to have a look at it. I asked him if his phone had RCS messaging. I tried to explain what it was in simply terms, by saying it gives you the features of WhatsApp (read receipts, delivered status, typing indication, ability to send pictures) by just using the included Messages app that came with the phone, he said he wasn't aware of RCS. I asked him to look in his settings for the included messages app, and he said it was turned off. He turned it on, and he said he will leave it on, as not everyone he knows, uses WhatsApp.

I was starting to dislike the reliability of WhatsApp more and more over the last few months, as it would randomly not notify me when I had a text. No tone, no banner on the screen. It was only when I went into the WhatsApp that I could see I had a text. It just was proving less and less reliable, which isn't something you want from a messaging app. For me I find the included Messages app works reliably all the time, whether its using iMessage, RCS, SMS messaging.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Make all rcs messages of rainbow pride color. Android users will love it!

Why would you even say such a thing?

 

[ypl]

Why would you even say such a thing?

StoneJack went (one word) too far with the irony/sarcasm(?) imho. However, he's right about differences between iOS UI - minimalistic, simplistic, clean, easy to "absorb" (crucial for older persons like me) and Android UI - overloaded with colors, grays + childish animations, etc.

RCS is just another extension of plain, old SMS (along with MMS). Introducing another color for such extension is quite bad idea which would make Messages app too "androish" visually and just confusing. There's information about protocol used (RCS/MMS/SMS) in the middle of the thread view, above first date such protocol was used.