Apple did what it probably had to, finally throwing its official support behind the RCS messaging platform and promising to roll out support for iPhones in 2024 but, in doing so, the company raises a series of thorny questions.
Shortly after Apple told me the good news, I had many questions, which Apple was unsurprisingly not answering and, as people read my story and I talked to colleagues and friends about Apple's impending adoption of the Rich Communication Service (RCS) universal profile in software, it became clear that we really don't know much about what this really means for the best iPhone users and their messaging friends on Android.
