Apple must make the Messages app available for Android from Google

Google has started a new campaign, with which they are publicly asking Apple to let the Messages app also run on Android. They call this ‘support for RCS’. And in this case, Google is right. Read why in this article.

Apple’s Messages app to run on Android

The Messages app on your iPhone is a great way to send messages to each other. It works smoothly, you have many functions and with iOS 16 there are only more possibilities! Until you suddenly get a green message instead of a blue message.

This happens when you are in contact with an Android user as an iPhone user. On Android, Apple’s Messages app (better known as iMessage) doesn’t exist, so the messages go back to the somewhat old-fashioned and limited technology of SMS and MMS. An image that you get via text message from a phone with Android to your Messages app from Apple will therefore not look like it.

The blame for this misery is often placed on Android users by iPhone users, because why don’t they just have an iPhone? Google now says: it’s not Android, it’s Apple. In this article we explain why Google is absolutely right.

Get the message, Apple!

Google has the solution to this problem: RCS (Rich Communication Services). Via this successor to SMS and MMS you can simply send high-resolution photos, start group conversations, make video calls and your messages are encrypted.

Google has made a complete website with the message that Apple must take action to support this RCS. It even goes so far as to encourage people to tweet to Apple. With the push of a button, the website will create a tweet for you, addressed to the company, with the hashtag #GetTheMessage.

With such a large-scale campaign, I can well imagine Apple getting on the defensive. Google can’t even keep track of its own messaging apps, why do they have anything to say about messaging on my iPhone? Still, this issue isn’t just a feud among these tech giants. RCS is also useful for you.

It’s all about the user experience at Apple

If Apple adds support for RCS, thus opening up the Messages app to Android, it won’t have to replace iMessage. It just keeps you from being thrown back in time when you interact with an Android user.

For Apple, the user experience is extremely important. From the moment you remove the plastic from the box, to how it feels to remove an app. Support for RCS can make it so that it doesn’t matter who you chat with in the Messages app, because it always feels good. So a win-win solution.

Apple doesn’t say why they don’t support the technology yet. Chances are it’s simply not a priority because iMessage works so well. Or maybe it’s just a matter of ego. In any case, the ball is now in Apple’s court and more people than ever are watching to see what happens.

Looking for more Apple Messages app tips?

Not yet familiar with all the possibilities of the Messages app? We’ve created an iMessage beginner’s guide for that! From iOS 16 it is possible to adjust a sent message.

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