Tim Cook would rather sell you an iPhone than add RCS to iMessage

Apple CEO Tim Cook has dismissed the idea of ​​adopting RCS messaging to put an end to the green bubbles surrounding messages when iPhone users send a text message to someone on their Android device.

“I don’t hear our users asking us to put too much effort into it at this point,” Cook said when asked how Apple founder Steve Jobs feels about using the RCS standard in iMessage during Vox Media’s Code 2022 event on Wednesday. night. Instead, Cook said, “I’d like to switch you over to an iPhone.”

But the person who asked the question, LiQuan Hunt of Vox Media, came back with a valid complaint, saying his mom couldn’t see the videos he sent her. It all comes down to the lack of interoperability between iMessage and RCS, both messaging platforms that could allow for high-quality photos and videos — if they worked together. If you’ve tried to send a video from Android to iOS (or vice versa) using your regular text messaging app, you know that your videos appear quite mysteriously on the other end. Cook’s suggestion to fix this annoying problem? Buy your mom an iPhone.

As silly as it may sound, the bubble color in iMessage that distinguishes Android users (green) from other iPhone users (blue) has become a point of contention. Google campaign to shame Apple publicly Apparently adopting the standard had no effect on Cook, who is openly focused on the opinions of people who have iPhones. Of course, there are other reasons to avoid adding RCS. Emails revealed in Epic beta Showed Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, saying: “The iMessage app on Android simply removes [an] Obstacle for iPhone families to give their children Android phones.”