No, it just means that Android messages will show a few more things (like read status).
But the green and blue colors will remain because iMessage supports more iOS-specific features.
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I swear there’s a new one of these every day
I'm extremely happy about this. I have friends and some family who have Pixel/Samsung so chatting will be much better. I liked RCS in Google Messages.
Just use WhatsApp?
That meta trash. You know they MITM’d that shit.
I’d say just use Signal, but nobody listens.
Anyway, RCS is a big deal, and a good thing, overall.
They should totally change it to blue.
I think it should be a completely different color. Maybe orange. Having green mean two different things isn’t cool.
Most people use WhatsApp anyway on my side of the world 😂. Doesn’t really matter for me 🤣.
ok
What happened ?
RCS support in iMessage
Me and my girl already use FB Messenger. What good does this bring us?
Well believe it or not, you can text other people than your girlfriend.
Honesty if android had a data based messaging app that was as smooth and seamless and I message, I'd probably make the switch back.
I enjoyed alot of things android but as I got older ease of use and functionality are #1 priority
But that actually is the Google Messaging app. I have iPhone 15PM and Google Pixel 6 Pro and I honestly can’t see anything different between messages in android and iMessage. If you have RCS enabled on android, your messages do become data based, you get typing notifications, read receipts, can send pictures and videos over internet.
I don’t understand it myself, both are so similar, android messaging is android to android and iMessage is iPhone to iPhone. They can both easily do what the other can, so this whole thing makes no sense to me
iMessage can reply to messages with stickers and play games
What are those features? I never understood what's so special about iMessages
It is better than imassage and works on all devices. Thanks apple for making photos look shit when sending from android to ios
lol this is the first time I’ve seen Google messages in …years? Maybe a decade?
still no game pigeon for them tho
Google just ended google messages
This is awesome even though i typically use Threema or Signal for non apple to apple messages
The end…
Source: everyone outside of North America
Everybody out of USA are gone still using WhatsApp
I had to use WhatsApp for a group chat once. I’ll never go back to it
list of messager i dont use
Genuinely never thought or noticed this before. Now it’s going to bug me every time I see the Messages icon
Except the green ones aren’t necessarily Android users.
As someone who uses both iphone and Android... Both use green bubbles. The imessage bubbles are green of you are using celular instead of internet to send messages.
Blue = iMessage. If it’s green, it was SMS, soon it will be RCS. When you don’t have a strong internet connection, depending on your settings, messages will revert to SMS. When you see the green, even if it’s to another iPhone, it is NOT iMessage and is NOT secure (sms is sent plain text)
Why would we want two apps. That’s ridiculous.
I don’t give a damn. You really making this so much big a deal but completely ignoring that billions of people across USA border doesn’t care.
And the US will get this benefit thanks to the EU
Even if you don’t understand the blue bubble thing, (aka not in the US), arcs is still important as it’s much more secure than SMS, so one time codes from banks and other things should be harder for hackers to get.
With the announcement of RCS for iOS. I would actually appreciate the option to change the colour of my chat bubbles. If something is sms or iMessage, it usually says so above the first message or if it decides to switch because of something like signal strength
If you’re green you still a lozer lol
Worshipping a corporation that doesn't give a shit about you lol
If you pay a giant sum of money for an overpriced product with bugs and shit build quality you are the bigger loser
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”Apple has confirmed to me that blue bubbles will still be used to represent iMessages, while green bubbles will represent RCS messages”
Yup and it’s not coming until iOS 18
iMessage has always been blue from iPhone to iPhone. Android to iPhone is always green.
I suspect people might switch to these apps now instead of meta’s
What will this do though? I’ve never really paid attention to any of this? I what is the real benefit
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Definitely not. iMessage isn’t going anywhere, they’ve said that. And RCS will just be green now.
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whatsapp much?
I would like to edit a text sent to Android phone. Or reply to sent message. I like those features a lot.
What does this bring to people outside od US?
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