With iMessage, Apple permits iOS and macOS customers to ship end-to-end encrypted messages to one another. However, this can be a completely different story when textual content messages are despatched from Android to iOS and vice versa as a result of this can simply be despatched as a daily textual content. This signifies that it isn’t fairly as safe throughout the transmission.

However, Google needs to vary this as a result of in a tweet by Google’s SVP Of Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer, the manager hinted that Apple ought to undertake the Rich Communication Services protocol (RCS).

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— Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) October 7, 2021

For these unfamiliar, the RCS protocol was designed as a alternative for conventional SMS. It was additionally speculated to be a platform agnostic different to different messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and iMessage. This is as a result of proper now, these providers require you to both personal an iPhone, or join a Facebook/WhatsApp account.

This is versus SMS the place so long as you may have a cell phone, a telephone quantity, and a mobile connection, you may ship and obtain SMS proper out of the field. Google has been pushing the RCS protocol for some time now and to this point, the foremost carriers within the US have agreed to undertake it.

Apple is among the few main tech firms that’s nonetheless holding out, however we are able to’t say we’re stunned as iMessage may very well be an incentive for customers to buy Apple merchandise and use its ecosystem.

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