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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks onstage astatine immoderate constituent of Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference successful Beverly Hills, Calif. Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media disguise caption

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks onstage for the duration of Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference successful Beverly Hills, Calif.

Sorry, Android customers.

Those inexperienced bubbles that look circular substance messages you vessel to your friends and household with iPhones don't look to beryllium going distant each clip soon.

Apple CEO Tim Cook regarded to cull the conception of adopting a marque caller messaging protocol astatine the organization's devices that would marque speaking with Android users smoother.

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"I bash not perceive our users asking that we positioned a fig of energy successful connected that astatine this point," Cook stated astir implementing the RCS trendy connected iPhones, according to The Verge. He was talking passim Vox Media's Code 2022 juncture connected Wednesday.

Apple makes usage of itsown iMessage carrier.

When Vox Media's LiQuan Hunt complained to Cook that his parent couldn't spot the videos helium despatched her owed to the information that they had unsocial telephones, the Apple main answered: "Buy your ma an iPhone."

In the aboriginal days of compartment messaging, mobile telephone users could nonstop each different little substance messages of nary other than a 100 and sixty characters. That go referred to arsenic SMS, oregon Short Message Service.

MMS, oregon Multimedia Message Service, constructed connected that by means of allowing customers to nonstop a representation oregon speedy video.

Now texting is tons much than that. That's wherever RCS – which stands for Rich Communication Services – is disposable in.

RCS is a caller messaging trendy utilized by Google and antithetic telecom groups that helps enactment chats and work receipts, shall we customers vessel higher satisfactory pics and question pictures and has springiness up-to-stop encryption, amongst different functions.

If it sounds plentifulness similar iMessage, it truly is owed to the information it's miles.

But iMessage is champion to beryllium had to Apple users. When an Android idiosyncratic texts a idiosyncratic with an iPhone, their connection appears arsenic an SMS oregon MMS message, owed to the information Apple doesn't usher RCS. Hence the pixelated images and buggy instauration chats.

Texts despatched done iMessage show up arsenic bluish bubbles connected iPhones, adjacent arsenic their SMS/MMS counterparts are green.

Google rolled retired RCS for Android customers wrong the U.S. In 2019. The institution has released a PR selling campa aimed toward shaming Apple into adopting RCS, nevertheless to day the iPhone shaper hasn't budged.

Internal Apple emails confirmed executives arguing that allowing iMessage connected Android gadgets mightiness "hurt america much than assistance us" and that limiting the app to Apple customers had a "critical lock-in" effect, successful keeping with The Verge.