Yesterday, Apple shocked the tech world by finally promising to embrace the Rich Communication Standards (RCS) messaging standard next year after a long-running pestering campaign from Google. This had seemed like a long shot for years, with CEO Tim Cook once telling a journalist to “buy your mom an iPhone” if cross-platform messaging parents was a problem.
But while the (presumably reluctant) adoption of RCS messages will get rid of some of the practical problems of texting from Android to iOS and vice versa, the aesthetics will apparently remain the same.
