Sarcastic Android 'Lyric Explainer Video' Urges Apple to Adopt RCS in Messages

[MacRumors]

Google has urged Apple to adopt Rich Communication Services (RCS) in its Messages app in a "lyric explainer video" for Drake's "Texts Go Green."

RCS is designed to replace SMS messaging and touts support for higher resolution photos and videos, audio messages, bigger file size, improved encryption, and more. Google has advocated the new communications protocol for several years.

Google's senior vice president of Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer, has repeatedly tried to persuade Apple to adopt support for RCS, and now, a video posted on the official Android Twitter account once again urges Apple to support RCS.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1538308158510157824

The video seeks to explain the meaning behind a song called "Texts Go Green," the third track on Drake's latest album, "Honestly, Nevermind," which explains the need to move on from a toxic relationship. The title is a reference to how when an iPhone user is blocked, they no longer see their messages sent as blue iMessage bubbles and send green SMS bubbles instead. "If only some super talented engineering team at Apple would fix this," the video says.

Apple is the last major RCS holdout, as U.S. carriers that include Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have adopted RCS support for Android devices. Apple has not commented on whether it plans to add RCS support in the future, so the company's position is still unknown.

Article Link: Sarcastic Android 'Lyric Explainer Video' Urges Apple to Adopt RCS in Messages

 

[russell_314]

No one has time for garbage green texts 🤣

 

[trifero]

Vade Retro Satan

 

[I7guy]

If nothing prior has convinced Apple to adopt RCS, this clearly will. /s

 

[0194839]

Do iPhone users really have android friends?

 

[vertsix]

I'll stick with iMessage.

I've had way more sexual relationships and been part of many more groupchats as a result of iMessage. It has single-handedly changed my social life.

 

[topmounter]

Apple should make a rebuttal explainer video urging Google to adopt RCS in Google Voice 🤣

 

[Spock]

Apple will support it at some point, they won't have a choice.

 

[BootsWalking]

Apple prefers the green that comes from having a locked-down ecosystem.

 

[SW3029]

**** that. RCS isn't always end-to-end encyryped https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...-for-android-messages-users-beats-rcs-update/

 

[giggles]

Carrier-based text messaging, be it SMS, MMS or RCS, is a relic of the past.

"More secure", yeah sure.

 

[fwmireault]

Apple not supporting RCS makes iMessages a bad experience for both iPhone and Android users when having green bubble friends. Nobody wins here. I hope they will support it in a near future

 

[Googlyhead]

What’s actually the complaint / proposal / demand?
That RCS is supported as a fallback to iMessage?

My simple thought is that having the basic SMS fallback (and be identified as such) is particularly beneficial, so I wouldn’t want to see that go if RCS has to be a replacement.
Replace iMessage with RCS? Not sure if Apple would want to (and I don’t know enough to conclude if one is better than the other).
Have RCS as an alternative for non- iPhone/iMessage users? Fine, as long as there’s still the SMS fallback, but I can’t see Apple wanting to add a competing option to iMessage.

 

[infiniteentropy]

Not to be "old man yells at clouds," but this is arguing over which color shirts the Titanic orchestra should wear.

Smartphones are a bane to society. We all know they're unhealthy for us. Best text bubble is no text bubble.

 

[switz]

I would trust any Google recommendation about as far as I could throw a Grand Piano as a multiple amputee with no arms or legs! They have lied, spied and stolen so much one is never going to believe anything

 

[kelemor88]

Not to be "old man yells at clouds," but this is arguing over which color shirts the Titanic orchestra should wear.

Smartphones are a bane to society. We all know they're unhealthy for us. Best text bubble is no text bubble.

And get off my damn lawn!!!!!

 

[barkomatic]

If Apple adopted RCS, they could still force messages from Android users to be green so they should just do it. The iPhone would still have its snob appeal.

 

[bsolar]

**** that. RCS isn't always end-to-end encyryped https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...-for-android-messages-users-beats-rcs-update/

Technically neither are iMessages: if you have iCloud Backup active it contains a copy of the iMessages encryption key and the backup itself is not end-to-end encrypted.

 

[Bustycat]

Would Apple listen to the expert of failing IM softwares?

 

[BvizioN]

Wait until EU learns about this....

 

[AngerDanger]

I remember reading that the video also misses the point of the song; Drake's happy that texts turn green at the end of a relationship. 🤷‍♀️

 

[giggles]

What’s actually the complaint / proposal / demand?
That RCS is supported as a fallback to iMessage?

My simple thought is that having the basic SMS fallback (and be identified as such) is particularly beneficial, so I wouldn’t want to see that go if RCS has to be a replacement.
Replace iMessage with RCS? Not sure if Apple would want to (and I don’t know enough to conclude if one is better than the other).
Have RCS as an alternative for non- iPhone/iMessage users? Fine, as long as there’s still the SMS fallback, but I can’t see Apple wanting to add a competing option to iMessage.

They never flesh it out, they just wave their fist in the general direction of Apple.

iMessage is a dynamic platform with new features added by the year, and God knows what Apple has in store for it.

Even if Apple somehow supported RCS in "hybrid" iMessage+RCS group chats, it's not like the Android guy wouldn't be left out anyway the minute someone started (to mention the latest addition to iMessage, coming in iOS16) a SharePlay session. Group chats will always be disrupted by new iMessage features. Unless we want to stifle iMessage innovation and freeze its features to avoid leaving Android users behind.

 

[contacos]

Eh everyone besides the US uses WhatsApp anyway

 

[rumorphobe]

Wait until EU learns about this....

All ze bubbles VILL BE BLUE!

 

[GenesisST]

Do iPhone users really have android friends?

FTFY!

Signed: a self-deprecating iPhone user