From personal experience this is mostly due to iMessage chats. Imagine for example that all of your friends have iPhones except one or two. From your perspective, they're the reason you can't have an iMessage chat with all the fancy features. Sure, you could use another messaging app, but why couldn't they just buy the phone that always works?
This perspective doesn't make sense to me, but it's how a majority of people think.
RCS will let anyone react with an emoji[1], which is like 95% of what people want/need/use. But ironically, the non-standard proprietary iPhone users all think everyone else is the problem, even though them & their phone is the non-partcipatory jank holding us back.
Sadly, Google have co-opted to run RCS (https://jibe.google.com/) and most people have now serious doubts if Google will ruin messaging again like how they ruined Hangouts. In all of this time, Apple maintained iMessage with not much fanfare so I am not surprised that most people just shrugged Google's campaign: everyone is tired of Google's irrationality.
Also the US carriers are only "supporting" RCS because they have no choice in the manner - Google pushed it hard. Imagine if Google have pulled the plug, would the carriers still maintain it?
rektide|3 years ago
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23475819/google-messages...
zinekeller|3 years ago
Also the US carriers are only "supporting" RCS because they have no choice in the manner - Google pushed it hard. Imagine if Google have pulled the plug, would the carriers still maintain it?
hulitu|3 years ago
Your definition of "works" is strange. Apple is not able to display a menu name when you use a bigger font.
ThePowerOfFuet|3 years ago
They _used_ to always work, but Apple's software quality has been declining over the years.
orbisvicis|3 years ago
matthew28845|3 years ago