It’s more than that. Videos and pictures sent via SMS absolutely suck because they were designed for 2004 era quality standards.
I agree RCS will stay green. It will have text, good quality media, maybe read receipts.
And that’s it. No E2EE or other extensions. Apple is fixing one issue (bad media quality) and taking away a disingenuous Google talking point. Perhaps this is also an argument to legislators that they don’t need to open iMessage.
They’re never going to go out of their way to make it preferable in any way.
Media quality would be a start, at least. The only other thing I'd love for them to "fix" is the inability to add non-iPhone users to existing group chats. With those two things I -- and probably most Android users -- would be at a "don't care, this is good enough for me" state.
You can “add” SMS users to iMessage groups, if the group consists entirely of phone numbers and you’re on a device that supports SMS.
The newly created SMS group doesn’t replace the thread associated with the original group, though, so it’s easy for the group to fork when this happens.
I agree RCS will stay green. It will have text, good quality media, maybe read receipts.
And that’s it. No E2EE or other extensions. Apple is fixing one issue (bad media quality) and taking away a disingenuous Google talking point. Perhaps this is also an argument to legislators that they don’t need to open iMessage.
They’re never going to go out of their way to make it preferable in any way.