Google has done a ton to make RCS, or rich communication services, standard messaging protocols on all cellular platforms. It works with all operators A.S., including AT & T and Verizon, to make messages by Google default applications, where RCS is supported. It treasures a list of foreign messaging applications and is consolidated with only the most important. And now Cryptally trolling apples to play well.
Yesterday, the Android SVP, Hiroshi Lockheimer, called Apple indirectly with a naughty tweet. Everything starts when the golf gets reported at a difficult time pro-Golfer Bryson Dechambeau as the only green bubble in the group chat. One of the friends of the Dechambeau team called it “sick in the ass” that he was the only player in the US Ryder Cup team without an iPhone.
Lockheimer tweeted in solidarity. “The group chat does not need to be destroyed like this,” he wrote, added that there was a “very clear solution” for the problem of Dechambeau with his teammate – clearly an acrostic referring to RCS. Lockheimer ends the tweet that invites anyone “who can make this right” to call on Google for help adding compatibility.
Google has worked to migrate its Android users to RCS for years. However, this has become a slightly confusing process because the carrier enters and exits from supporting the standard before finally settling on it. SMS-based protocols are a feature rich version of existing standard text messages for more than a decade. Many Android M users must have access to its features now, including receipts, typing status, and share locations as long as you communicate with compatible Android devices. RCS also allows end-to-end encryption – something that iPhone users secretly enjoy iMessage for a while now.
But Apple is not interested in supporting RCS, because it is not necessary. The company’s imessage protocol has worked well for its users in well-maintained walled gardens. That is why the term “green bubble” has become a general learvation to refer to one Android friend at the Imessage group chat.
Google is likely to continue to try to captivate one of its biggest competitors openly to join his side, because Apple is the last delay to convert to RCS. At present, one of the biggest surge against the search giant is that it has damaged the launch of messaging, first of all by confusing everyone with mass messaging applications and then by waiting too long to move to RCS.