[CharlesW]

> I find this completely false, messaging anyone on a non-iPhone (from my iPhone) is a complete disaster.

You should complain to your carrier. I'm on at least 5 different active text chains at any given time (family, friend groups, school parents) with a mix of devices, and it all works fine.

> …videos turn to 12 pixel noise…

That's an MMS limitation. If you regularly send videos, you'll want to use WhatsApp or some other non-standards-based messaging app.

[roywiggins]

iPhones are stuck with MMS limitations because Apple won't support RCS.

[SllX]

Hopefully they never will. Nothing I’ve read about RCS in the last two months has convinced me it is anything other than a security and spam hole waiting to happen. If there’s to be an inter-operable standard between Apple and Android, I think it has to be Apple and Google-driven rather than something that makes the carriers happy. Anything at all to reduce their role to dumb IP-carrying pipes is aces in my books.