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Your Green Bubble Stays Even With Apple Adopting RCS

Kellen November 17, 2023 33

The big news of the week is undoubtedly the news involving Apple and its adoption of RCS next year as the default messaging for conversations between people who don't both own an iPhone. We're talking about iPhone-to-Android messages that should no longer be...

Apple Says It Will Support RCS in Messages in 2024

Kellen November 16, 2023 85

In one of the most surprising moves of the year, Apple has committed to bringing RCS to the iPhone and Messages in 2024. Feel to read that again, but yes, Apple has apparently adopted RCS and will bring it to the iPhone over the coming year. Through a...

Nothing Chats Brings iMessage to the Nothing Phone 2 (Updated)

Kellen November 14, 2023 27

UPDATE 11/20: This app did launch and was apparently such a massive security disaster that Nothing pulled it within hours and Sunbird had to pause use of their own app. A big giant yikes. About a year ago, you may recall a conversation we had about a new...

Google’s Shaming of Apple for Not Adopting RCS Continues With “iPager”

Kellen September 21, 2023 33

It has apparently been over a year since Google launched a website dedicated to begging Apple to adopt their preferred messaging standard, RCS. Over that period of time, Apple has mostly ignored Google's cries and has taken, well, zero steps towards bringing...

Apple Didn’t Announce RCS for iMessage at WWDC

Kellen June 5, 2023 67

Google really wants Apple "to fix texting." Their campaign to try and convince Apple to include RCS within iMessage has not slowed and is very much an ongoing focus of their messaging pitch. In fact, at Google I/O a couple of weeks ago, Google once again made...

Sunbird Promises iMessage on Android and Blue Bubbles

Kellen December 2, 2022 70

Apple has made it clear that they have no plans to bring iMessage over to Android. They know it keeps their users on the platform and are apparently fine with the green bubble bullying of Android users that is a result of the broken messaging experience iPhone...

Don’t Like the Green Bubble? Buy an iPhone

Tim September 8, 2022 128

Many users (and especially Google) have been calling for Apple to adopt RCS messaging into iMessages. Doing so could end the green bubble controversy, but most importantly, both Android and iOS users would share a plethora of great features. This week, with...

Google Wants Apple to “Get the Message” and Fix iMessage With RCS

Kellen August 9, 2022 70

Google's latest move to try and convince Apple that it should add RCS to iMessage is through a campaign centered around the hashtag #GetTheMessage that went live today. Through YouTube, social channels, and on a dedicated page on the Android site, Google is...