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Tim Cook seems to be enjoying the wild tensions between Android and iOS users

Tim Cook seems to be enjoying the wild tensions between Android and iOS users

According to The Verge, Tim Cook just advised a journalist at the 2022 Code Conference to get an iPhone after they asked about Apple adopting RCS text messaging. When the Person responded that he couldn’t send movies to his mother using Android, Cook said “get your mum an iPhone.” When asked how Apple could improve communication between iPhone and Android users, he remarked “I don’t hear our people requesting that we spend a lot of attention into that.” That will undoubtedly feed the discussion regarding a standard texting format for smartphones. For years, Google has pushed the RCS (Rich Communications Service) as a solution to improve user compatibility between iOS and Android users. Last month, Google even called Apple out for it. By doing this, it may be possible to get rid of the dreaded “green bubble” that iPhone users occasionally see while receiving text messages from Android phones.

According to internal documents made public during the Epic trial, Apple briefly explored making iMessage available to Android users before abandoning the idea. In a well-known statement, former Apple executive and marketing chief Phil Schiller claimed that bringing iMessage to Android “would hurt us more than assist us” and that “iMessage amounts to real lock-in.” Cook did stated that Apple isn’t working on RCS “at this point,” which seemed to leave room for the possibility. In any case, users outside of the US tend to prefer non-SMS apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal, thus the green bubble problem is mostly an American one.

Tim Cook seems to be enjoying the wild tensions between Android and iOS users

Tim Cook seems to be enjoying the wild tensions between Android and iOS users

According to The Verge, Tim Cook just advised a journalist at the 2022 Code Conference to get an iPhone after they asked about Apple adopting RCS text messaging. When the Person responded that he couldn’t send movies to his mother using Android, Cook said “get your mum an iPhone.” When asked how Apple could improve communication between iPhone and Android users, he remarked “I don’t hear our people requesting that we spend a lot of attention into that.” That will undoubtedly feed the discussion regarding a standard texting format for smartphones. For years, Google has pushed the RCS (Rich Communications Service) as a solution to improve user compatibility between iOS and Android users. Last month, Google even called Apple out for it. By doing this, it may be possible to get rid of the dreaded “green bubble” that iPhone users occasionally see while receiving text messages from Android phones.

According to internal documents made public during the Epic trial, Apple briefly explored making iMessage available to Android users before abandoning the idea. In a well-known statement, former Apple executive and marketing chief Phil Schiller claimed that bringing iMessage to Android “would hurt us more than assist us” and that “iMessage amounts to real lock-in.” Cook did stated that Apple isn’t working on RCS “at this point,” which seemed to leave room for the possibility. In any case, users outside of the US tend to prefer non-SMS apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal, thus the green bubble problem is mostly an American one.