The company's head of Android isn't asking for an iMessage app, he said, just support of RCS.
Once again, people are talking about how Apple won’t play nice with Android devices. This time Google Senior Vice President Hiroshi Lockheimer, who oversees Android, is taking Apple to task over the green bubble struggle and urging the company to embrace a new text messaging standard that will make cross-platform communication easier.
It’s available by default through the Google Messages app, which comes standard on all Android devices—just like Apple Messages is standard is on all Apple devices. In fact, thethat his tweets were a critique of Apple’s refusal to bring iMessage to Android. Instead, he wants Apple to support RCS in iMessage, just as the company supports older SMS/MMS standards. He even offered to help Apple implement RCS, doubling down on a“Phone number-based messaging is the fallback,” Lockheimer tweeted.
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