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by cpuguy83 1629 days ago
Blame Apple for this, not Google. Android supports RCS, iMessage does not. Apple is the last holdout.

There's no good reason to have it this way other than lock-in.
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jacob019 1629 days ago
100%, maybe Apple should be compelled to support standards when they choose not to for anticompetitive reasons.
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pmarreck 1629 days ago
> Android supports RCS, iMessage does not.

iMessage has existed in more or less its current form for over 10 years now. RCS took too long and basically gave this space to Apple. And Apple keeps adding features, such as bundling photos sent at once, showing where photos you have came from, and other things, not to mention things that STILL aren't on Android (nor whatsapp) like livephotos.

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cpuguy83 1629 days ago
There is a standard that is significantly better than SMS and Apple has so far chosen to stay with SMS as the only fallback.

Blame Apple that talking to anyone not on iMessage sucks.

Also, the features you mention are all extremely new to iOS, I'm not sure what you mean by "still".

- Sent from my iPhone

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pmarreck 1628 days ago
Livephotos are NOT new... 2015.

But sure, Apple could (maybe should) use RCS as a fallback instead of SMS.

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km3r 1629 days ago
No one is saying apple needs to get rid of iMessage, just update the fallback from sms to rcs
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