[MBCook]

> why would a private company allocate resources to fix a problem that barely affects their users

It doesn’t barely affect users. That’s the point. In the US 50% of people use android. In the rest of the world that numbers a lot higher. Anything that goes over MMS sucks. Having a single android person in a group chat means falling back to SMS/MMS and everything sucks.

RCS is a huge quality of life improvement when texting non-iPhones for people who do that on a regular basis.

[kredd]

Again, this argument ignores the existence of OS-agnostic apps like WhatsApp. Who uses MMS? I might be extremely wrong, as I couldn’t find numbers online. But just from personal experience as well, outside of US, WhatsApp and its alternatives are defacto standard over SMS/MMS. Significant chunk of countries offer free data for WhatsApp/Messenger usage, and SMS/MMS is still paid per text.

People are not going to switch to using SMS just because iPhone added RCS either.