The linked article also contains a link to the Apple Support site, which shows what sort of services are live across the various networks around the world. As of today, 25 networks in the USA and Canada have RCS active for iPhones. In Africa, it is zero right now, but Vodacom in South Africa said they were busy with it.
Basically, each iPhone user’s network must activate RCS for iPhones. Many already have RCS active for Android devices, but there is clearly some separate activation still required for iPhones.
Beginning next year, Verizon will join AT&T and T-Mobile in preloading Android Messages as the default texting app on all Android phones it sells. It’s the final step for making RCS Chat — the next-gen standard designed to replace SMS — the default experience for Android. In the US, that…
It is ironic (tragic?) that in 2022, the communication between modern RCS Messages and iMessage will be the ancient unencrypted SMS system. But that's what we have to live with for now, so it is good to see Google at least trying to improve compatibility of the experience from the…
I was really sure this was an early April Fool's joke, but it appears to be genuine… Apple will keep its iMessage protocol as-is, so that won't affect its security, and they don't want to bring iMessage either to Android (as that would lose them customers). Right now, though, the…
