At the 2022 Code Conference, Tim Cook responded to a journalist's question astir RCS substance messaging by suggesting they bargain an iPhone, The Verge reported. Asked however Apple could amended connection betwixt iPhone and Android users, helium said "I don't perceive our users asking that we enactment a batch of vigor into that." When the writer replied that helium couldn't nonstop definite videos to his Android-using mother, Cook joked "buy your ma an iPhone."

That's bound to adhd substance to the statement astir a communal smartphone messaging format. Google has agelong promoted the RCS (Rich Communications Service) arsenic a mode to let for amended interoperability betwixt iOS and Android users, adjacent shaming Apple astir it past month. Doing truthful could assistance destruct the dreaded "green bubble" seen by iPhone users erstwhile they person a substance connection from an Android phone.

Apple considered offering iMessage to Android users but rapidly unopen the thought down, arsenic interior documents revealed during the Epic trial. Former selling main Phil Schiller famously said that porting iMessage to Android "would wounded america much than assistance us," and different erstwhile Apple exec said successful an email that "iMessage amounts to superior lock-in."

Cook did accidental that Apple isn't addressing RCS "at this point," appearing to not wholly regularisation the thought out. In immoderate case, the greenish bubble contented is mostly US-centric, arsenic users successful different countries thin to favour non-SMS apps similar Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal.