Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the concept of adopting RCS messaging to place an finish to the inexperienced bubbles that encompass messages when iPhone customers textual content somebody on an Android gadget.

“I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” Cook stated when requested how Apple founder Steve Jobs would really feel about utilizing the RCS customary at Vox Media’s Code 2022 occasion on Wednesday night time.

But the one who requested the query, Vox Media’s LiQuan Hunt, got here again with the very legitimate criticism that his mom can’t see the movies he sends her as a result of lack of interoperability between iMessage and RCS, a next-generation messaging system that permits higher-quality pictures and photographs to be despatched. If you’ve ever tried to ship a video from Android to iOS (or vice versa) you’ll know that your movies come out fully fuzzy on the opposite finish. Cook’s response to this fairly annoying subject? “Buy your mom an iPhone.”

While it could appear foolish, the bubble colour in iMessage that distinguishes Android (inexperienced) customers from fellow iPhone customers (blue) has develop into some extent of competition. Google’s marketing campaign to publicly disgrace Apple into adopting the usual has clearly had no impact on Cook, who’s publicly specializing in opinions from individuals who have iPhones. Of course, there are different causes to keep away from including RCS — emails unearthed within the Epic trial confirmed Apple senior vice chairman of software program engineering Craig Federighi saying, “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.”