Get ready for Android smartphone users to join the chat. Apple plans to improve messaging capabilities between iPhone and Android users in a software update next year—a reversal of its previous stance to not adopt the Rich Communications Services (RCS) standard. (Financial Times)
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Get ready for Android smartphone users to join the chat. Apple plans to improve messaging capabilities between iPhone and Android users in a software update next year—a reversal of its previous stance to not adopt the Rich Communications Services (RCS) standard. (Financial Times)
Talking point: The change will help users of the different operating systems share higher-resolution images, see read receipts and share locations, among other features. The holdout is iMessage, which will remain a method of communication between iPhone users only and won’t adopt RCS. The news came Thursday, the deadline day for Apple to argue to European Union regulators that its iMessage service shouldn’t be subjected to the EU’s new Digital Markets Act. The DMA would require it to have some level of interoperability with other messaging services.
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