[EricHolden12]

This whole debacle has somehow made Apple. responsible for fixing SMS, which is not their job to do so.

I really hope Apple holds their ground and doesn’t cave to this pressure to make iMessage more interoperable.

For the longest time nobody batted an eye to iMessage, claiming it’s garbage and suddenly when it’s grown to the size, feature set that it’s at now there’s a mark on it.

[pgeorgi]

"suddenly", except that there was a lawsuit about iMessage[1] in 2014 which AT&T and Google joined[2] in 2015, and ad campaigns about the Blue Bubble/Green Bubble thing specifically in 2019, e.g. by Samsung[3]

This has been brewing for a long time, and it seems GSMA folks are now certain enough that RCS is a replacement to SMS to make some larger waves.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/imessage-judge-orders-a...

[2] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-imessage-android-...

[3] https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/samsungs-response-to-apples-g...