For several years Google has been very vocal about Apple supporting RCS in its iMessage platform. Now that it's happened, it seems like Google got what it was asking for. Spoiler: it didn't, but it did stop the barrage of messaging about why it was needed.
Two very important things come into play here. First, RCS on the iPhone is not end-to-end encrypted because that type of encryption is not part of the RCS standards. Second, Google chose to add the encryption layer itself, but Apple did not, nor did it choose to work with Google to enable it.
