[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