Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the thought of adopting RCS messaging to enactment an extremity to the greenish bubbles that situation messages erstwhile iPhone users substance idiosyncratic connected an Android device.

“I don’t perceive our users asking that we enactment a batch of vigor successful connected that astatine this point,” Cook said erstwhile asked however Apple laminitis Steve Jobs would consciousness astir utilizing the RCS modular successful iMessage during Vox Media’s Code 2022 lawsuit connected Wednesday night. Instead, Cook said, “I would emotion to person you to an iPhone.”

But the idiosyncratic who asked the question, Vox Media’s LiQuan Hunt, came backmost with a valid complaint, saying that his parent can’t spot the videos helium sends her. It each comes down to a deficiency of interoperability betwixt iMessage and RCS, some messaging systems that could let higher-quality images and videos — if they worked together. If you’ve tried to nonstop a video from Android to iOS (or vice versa) utilizing your regular substance messaging app, past you cognize that your videos travel retired wholly fuzzy connected the different end. Cook’s proposition to hole this annoying issue? “Buy your ma an iPhone.”

While it whitethorn look silly, the bubble colour successful iMessage that distinguishes Android (green) users from chap iPhone users (blue) has go a constituent of contention. Google’s run to publically shame Apple into adopting the modular has intelligibly had nary effect connected Cook, who is publically focusing connected opinions from radical who person iPhones. Of course, determination are different reasons to debar adding RCS. Emails unearthed successful the Epic trial showed Apple elder vice president of bundle engineering Craig Federighi saying, “iMessage connected Android would simply service to region [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.”