[ThunderSizzle]

My wife uses iPhone, and whenever she sends stuff, it comes over as crap.

So it goes both ways. Maybe you should get an android instead? Or you can continue being snobby about Apple and Google being companies that want closed gardens.

[hedgehog]

The real villain here is the carriers who did not provide the infrastructure for large MMS attachments. If there was a widely supported standard Apple would probably implement it, instead the standard limit is 1MB or something so videos will just generally suck.

[kcb]

RCS is the infrastructure to allow larger attachments. Apple is the only one at fault here for not implementing it.

[hedgehog]

RCS is pretty meh technically and not widely supported, why would Apple take on the extra complexity? They can barely make their own apps work as it is.

[PickledHotdog]

Ah, widely supported standards like the various USB charging standards that Apple so famously adopted