Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday that Android’s green bubbles will remain as Apple doesn’t put much effort into improving the texting experience between iPhones and Android devices because its users haven’t requested it. Instead, he said, “I’d like to convert you to iPhone.”
Kif Leswing for CNBC:
“I don’t hear our users asking us to put a lot of energy into this,” Cook said in response to an audience question at Vox Media’s Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California. “I’d like to convert you to iPhone.”
Currently, messages between iPhones use iMessage, which offers a much smoother experience than when an Android device sends messages to an iPhone, where SMS messages appear as green bubbles. Google wants Apple to adopt RCS, a type of messaging intended as a replacement for next-generation SMS with encryption and other modern features.
Questioner insisted on Cook, saying he cannot send videos to his mother due to SMS messaging limitations.
“Buy your mom an iPhone,” Cook said.
MacDailyNews takes: Extremely valid advice, almost Jobsiano. More please.
Those who saddle themselves with imitated iPhones deserve to bask forever in the verdant swamp of inferiority.
Why would Apple do anything to improve the messaging experience for those who are content with a stolen product, iPhone knockoff?
Apple should support RCS in Messages immediately after making Windows the default operating system for the Macintosh. – MacDailyNews, August 11, 2022
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