Google threw another punch at Apple for its resistance to not adopting the standard. Rich Communication Services (RCS) on iPhonestating that he is a competitor “Stuck in the 1990s”. The criticism appeared in a statement released Friday 2. 30 years of short text messages (SMS).
The text by Neena Budhiraja, product manager of Google Messages at Mountain View company, draws attention to the importance of SMS and states that it is time to move on to more modern technology. However, a company may be complicating that progress.
“And today, all major carriers and phone manufacturers have adopted RCS as standard, except Apple. Apple refuses to adopt RCS and continues to rely on SMS when people with iPhones send messages to people with Android phones; your text messages are stuck in the 1990s”, said Budhiraja.
A spokesperson for the search giant also quoted the campaign #GetTheMessagewas launched by the owner of Android in August with the aim of convincing its competitor to replace SMS with RCS in iMessage. Despite the criticism, there is no indication for now that Apple will bow to pressure.
What’s New in RCS
In addition to poking the owner of the iPhone once again, Google announces two news coming soon to RCS🇧🇷 the first end-to-end encryption for group chatsIt will be available to users of the beta version of the Messages app in the coming weeks.
Later, the major tech messaging service will have reactions to messages containing any emoji🇧🇷 This latest addition is similar to the feature launched by WhatsApp in July and brings a new and faster option for the user to show how they feel about the received message.
Source: Tec Mundo
