Google is taking its beef with Apple over the company’s lack of RCS support to a slightly more public forum: a website highlighting how Apple makes texting Android phones suck on iOS.
Rich Communication Services (RCS), the messaging protocol designed to modernize texting on phones, has fast become the norm on Android thanks to Google’s help, but Apple has so far avoided supporting it in iMessage. RCS is designed to replace SMS and MMS, allowing for larger image and video files, read receipts, and end-to-end encryption. Those are all features Apple offers through iMessage as a perk for iPhone users, with the fallback for non-iOS devices being SMS and MMS.
